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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 6425828, member: 110350"]A fellow member was kind enough to share with me a number of photos of coins from the cancelled auction that he had (very presciently) downloaded. If the containers in the photos are the so-called "trays," I would call them small coin boxes instead, because they're only big enough to hold one coin each. They're all exactly alike, and look quite old, so I suppose they must be Yale's original trays/boxes. If so, it makes me wonder if the different provenances written on the card inserts are phony: it doesn't make any sense to me that Yale would have sold all these coins to multiple dealers at some point, all of whom kept them in their original Yale boxes, and then magically sold them all to a single buyer, which is how they all ended up together with CNG. It would make a lot more sense to me if someone with access to the collection stole them all from Yale, stupidly kept them in their original boxes, and wrote up fictional provenances supposedly explaining how he acquired them. Except that I see no purchase dates, and the prices mostly look so low that the "purchases" would have been too long ago for CNG to be able to confirm them. (Some of the $1 and $2 prices are so low that I wonder if they're realistic even if the coins were supposedly purchased as long ago as the 1950s or 1960s.)[/QUOTE]