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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3199095, member: 83956"]I'm fairly new to high-end collecting myself, and generally don't have the budget to breathe the rarefied air. But I recently bought a coin (to be unveiled in my December Top Ten) that was marginally valuable enough to possibly have a pedigree. A few months after purchase, I wrote the European dealer asking for any provenance information. The best he could do was say it was from "a European collection which has been assembled from the 70ies to the first years of the new millennium." The dealer also recommended Ex-Nvmis, which I had never heard of. (I told you I was new to this world.) So I checked it out. I determined it would probably cost me $25-50 to find out more detailed provenance info. I haven't done so yet, but might. But like I told you, I'm cheap. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is an interesting provenance-researching pay service: <a href="https://www.ex-numis.com/page/how-to-and-pricing.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ex-numis.com/page/how-to-and-pricing.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.ex-numis.com/page/how-to-and-pricing.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3199095, member: 83956"]I'm fairly new to high-end collecting myself, and generally don't have the budget to breathe the rarefied air. But I recently bought a coin (to be unveiled in my December Top Ten) that was marginally valuable enough to possibly have a pedigree. A few months after purchase, I wrote the European dealer asking for any provenance information. The best he could do was say it was from "a European collection which has been assembled from the 70ies to the first years of the new millennium." The dealer also recommended Ex-Nvmis, which I had never heard of. (I told you I was new to this world.) So I checked it out. I determined it would probably cost me $25-50 to find out more detailed provenance info. I haven't done so yet, but might. But like I told you, I'm cheap. It is an interesting provenance-researching pay service: [url]https://www.ex-numis.com/page/how-to-and-pricing.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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