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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5349095, member: 110350&quot;]<blockquote><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Did all those Republican coins on your website also have old provenances, or was avoiding 21st-century provenances not your policy when you bought them?</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have one siliqua from the East Harptree Hoard, from 1887, but I don&#039;t know if you count that kind of history as a provenance or as something different. It&#039;s not as if I can trace the chain of title, link by link, but it came from a reputable dealer and I very much doubt he would make something like that up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes I think that some of my really nice Roman Republican denarii with &quot;cabinet toning&quot; might have old provenances waiting to be discovered. And that someday image recognition technology for coins might reach a point, and might have a large enough database for comparison purposes, to be really useful. But it seems to me that facial recognition technology is more advanced. And that it&#039;s easier for coins than for faces to be close but not identical, as with die matches.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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