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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8273199, member: 26430"]Well, I'm glad [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER] revived this thread or I would've missed all this.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, of course we're all familiar with the practices described by [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] -- but I would add I am sure I am not the only one who feels a slight reluctance when it comes to coins suspected of having old French provenances.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those not familiar with the incident, below is the account of what happened while Jean Foy Vaillant was returning by sea with ancient gold coins acquired for, I believe, Louis XIV (at least in part, and at least some of which are still in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), as given in his biographical sketch in the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43583957" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43583957" rel="nofollow">American Journal of Numismatics... Vol 12 (2), Oct 1877, page 39</a>:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>...one day the captain saw rapidly approaching them a piratical vessel of Salé. All hope of escape appeared in vain; the pursuer was no farther distant than the cast of a bolt from the cross-bow. Vaillant, looking out for himself and mindful of his former captivity, valorously <i>swallowed the twenty golden coins</i> restored to him at Algiers! Just then a high wind springing up, its impetus carried them near the shores of Catalogne, where they were almost wrecked. Soon after, the vessel was driven upon the sandy shallows at the mouth of the Rhone, where the cable having parted, and the anchor being lost, Vaillant entered a skiff, and, with four companions, landed upon the nearest shore.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the mean time, the weight of the coins he had swallowed - being five or six ounces - gave him serious inconvenience . He called two physicians into consultation, who, embarrassed at the new case, differed among themselves in suggesting remedies; this determined Vaillant to do nothing, and nature, a little later performed the task,- relieving him of more than half the coins before he entered Lyons. He narrated the case to a friend and fellow-student there, showed the coins regained, and described those yet to come. Among them there was a gold Otho....</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Legend has it the ex-Vaillant provenance can still be verified by the methods discussed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8273199, member: 26430"]Well, I'm glad [USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER] revived this thread or I would've missed all this. And yes, of course we're all familiar with the practices described by [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] -- but I would add I am sure I am not the only one who feels a slight reluctance when it comes to coins suspected of having old French provenances. For those not familiar with the incident, below is the account of what happened while Jean Foy Vaillant was returning by sea with ancient gold coins acquired for, I believe, Louis XIV (at least in part, and at least some of which are still in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris), as given in his biographical sketch in the [URL='https://www.jstor.org/stable/43583957']American Journal of Numismatics... Vol 12 (2), Oct 1877, page 39[/URL]: [INDENT]...one day the captain saw rapidly approaching them a piratical vessel of Salé. All hope of escape appeared in vain; the pursuer was no farther distant than the cast of a bolt from the cross-bow. Vaillant, looking out for himself and mindful of his former captivity, valorously [I]swallowed the twenty golden coins[/I] restored to him at Algiers! Just then a high wind springing up, its impetus carried them near the shores of Catalogne, where they were almost wrecked. Soon after, the vessel was driven upon the sandy shallows at the mouth of the Rhone, where the cable having parted, and the anchor being lost, Vaillant entered a skiff, and, with four companions, landed upon the nearest shore. In the mean time, the weight of the coins he had swallowed - being five or six ounces - gave him serious inconvenience . He called two physicians into consultation, who, embarrassed at the new case, differed among themselves in suggesting remedies; this determined Vaillant to do nothing, and nature, a little later performed the task,- relieving him of more than half the coins before he entered Lyons. He narrated the case to a friend and fellow-student there, showed the coins regained, and described those yet to come. Among them there was a gold Otho....[/INDENT] Legend has it the ex-Vaillant provenance can still be verified by the methods discussed.[/QUOTE]
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