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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4892977, member: 110350"]Thank you for the personal recollection! I wonder what the man's name was (possibly neither Davis nor Clark)? It was an interesting marketing idea to use these "certificats de garantie" -- wax seals and all! -- as a means of selling visually appealing (but not overly expensive) ancient coins to unsuspecting buyers at high prices. (Perhaps this dealer was a more inventive version of Ilya Z. today.) As you say, the system couldn't work wonders forever, and it apparently didn't, given that I found no trace of the company after the mid-1970s. Who knows what price Davis & Clark -- certainly an odd name for a French dealer; perhaps the source quoted earlier in this thread was correct that the company was British-owned, at least in part -- sold my coin for in 1975? All I know is that I paid a very reasonable price for it, given its high quality, when I bought it 45 years later from Brad Bowlin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4892977, member: 110350"]Thank you for the personal recollection! I wonder what the man's name was (possibly neither Davis nor Clark)? It was an interesting marketing idea to use these "certificats de garantie" -- wax seals and all! -- as a means of selling visually appealing (but not overly expensive) ancient coins to unsuspecting buyers at high prices. (Perhaps this dealer was a more inventive version of Ilya Z. today.) As you say, the system couldn't work wonders forever, and it apparently didn't, given that I found no trace of the company after the mid-1970s. Who knows what price Davis & Clark -- certainly an odd name for a French dealer; perhaps the source quoted earlier in this thread was correct that the company was British-owned, at least in part -- sold my coin for in 1975? All I know is that I paid a very reasonable price for it, given its high quality, when I bought it 45 years later from Brad Bowlin![/QUOTE]
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