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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6408686, member: 110350&quot;]Good points. All joking about leaky basements aside, I&#039;d be very curious to know what kind of records Yale kept over the years about the specific coins from Dura Europos, including any that were de-accessioned.&nbsp; It&#039;s clear that the expeditions themselves were extremely well-documented, with thousands of photographs. (See the links below.) The question is whether the subsequent history of all the objects, including coins, was equally well-documented. I tend to think -- or hope -- that coins and other artifacts that Yale excavated itself during its expeditions are kept track of more closely than those purchased on the secondary market.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/Dura-Europos-resources.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/Dura-Europos-resources.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/Dura-Europos-resources.pdf</a> (an extensive bibliography, including: Bellinger, Alfred R. The Coins. The Excavations at Dura-Europos Conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters, Final Report 6, ed. Michael I. Rostovtzeff et al. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1949.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.artstor.org/collection/dura-europos-and-gerasa-archives-yale-university/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.artstor.org/collection/dura-europos-and-gerasa-archives-yale-university/" rel="nofollow">https://www.artstor.org/collection/dura-europos-and-gerasa-archives-yale-university/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/" rel="nofollow">http://media.artgallery.yale.edu/duraeuropos/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/online-feature/dura-europos-excavating-antiquity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/online-feature/dura-europos-excavating-antiquity" rel="nofollow">https://artgallery.yale.edu/online-feature/dura-europos-excavating-antiquity</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/dura-europos-crossroads-antiquity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/dura-europos-crossroads-antiquity" rel="nofollow">https://artgallery.yale.edu/exhibitions/exhibition/dura-europos-crossroads-antiquity</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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