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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;savitale, post: 3103884, member: 95284&quot;]It&#039;s an interesting question. Coins that have been above-ground in a living-person&#039;s possession since antiquity? Sure, that must be true for many coins. I suspect your typical Syracusian Dekadrachm didn&#039;t ever get buried in a hoard or dropped in the marketplace. </p><p><br /></p><p>Provenanced back to antiquity? Anything is possible, but I would say no, not provenanced as most would think of it. Secular writings before the 15th century are very scare. And how would one credibly assert provenance without written records? Even the Capitoline and Vatican museums only date back to the 15th century. If you place the end of antiquity at 476 AD, that means there is almost certainly a 1000 year gap in the record for anything in their (or any other museum&#039;s) collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>No one can trace their family tree earlier than about Charlemagne or William the Conqueror. There just were no written records. A coin could have been handed down from father to son for 2000 years, but there is no way to prove it.</p><p><br /></p><p>At least for Greece and Rome. For other cultures like China, I have no idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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