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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4507847, member: 19463&quot;]I had not thought of that.&nbsp; I save only the &#039;old&#039; tags/envelopes etc. from famous collections but not the flips from last week&#039;s owner.&nbsp; I assume that coins that came with tickets from big collections a hundred years ago are separated from them when slabbed with the old paper sent to the dump.&nbsp; I do not recall seeing a coin in slab accompanied by a separate envelope containing supporting documents even if the slab is one that is marked (e.g. Ex Voirol, Ex Haeberlin).&nbsp; I suppose it is a good question but there is considerable difference of opinion as to whether knowing the whereabouts of your coin over the last century is worth the trouble to maintain in hardcopy or if most &#039;Provenance&#039; collectors are satisfied just to have the reference which they can assume to be correct or check as they wish.&nbsp; I believe this question came up here before and Barry Murphy gave us the rules for getting that extra line on NGC slabs but I don&#039;t recall the details.&nbsp; I will point out that most of the dozen or so coins in my collection that came with paper I considered worth saving were far from the finest coins either in condition or numismatic interest.&nbsp; Not every coin included in the best collections was a mint state gem.&nbsp; The ones that were not are more likely to end up in my collection.&nbsp; Do you pay extra for such documents or do you just maintain them as a novelty and try to pass them on to the next owner of the coin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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