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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3409982, member: 75937&quot;]I wrote to the auction firm, inquiring about the item&#039;s provenance. They were kind enough to promptly reply to my inquiry:</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Roman Collector, </p><p><br /></p><p>I regret that neither I nor the vendor have any information on the identity of the French collector who wrote this ticket. It came with the coin when the present vendor purchased it but he cannot recall exactly when or where he bought it, with the others from that same collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>There do not appear to be many clues on the ticket itself. The back simply records weight, die axis and diameters while the front only shows the obv/rev basic details and legends plus the RIC volume 1 reference. The fact that RIC is used rather than Sear might suggest an academic rather than a casual collector? </p><p><br /></p><p>In the UK there is quite a lot of interest and research into identities for coin tickets and a number were published in the British Numismatic Journal a while ago; sadly, I know of no such efforts being made in France. From other tickets with coins from the same batch, about the only thing I can say is the the collector seemed to concentrate his collecting in Roman Imperial early bronzes including sestertii, dupondii and ases and generally in not the highest of grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry that I cannot be of more help.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards,</p><p>Chris Wren</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fuc%3Fexport%3Ddownload%26id%3D0B-LF-YqXrHQDYmFrMkJDaGZ6STg%26revid%3D0B-LF-YqXrHQDdFpGMWZjOVp5QnRjd1RvZFZaQXF5WldJUmJFPQ&amp;t=1552424137&amp;ymreqid=8bd97bab-7b1b-efd6-2c5b-bd00c0010000&amp;sig=uBYxb.svaJ9ZB6Qi1BtpiA--~C" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>TimeLine Auctions[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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