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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 892259, member: 19463&quot;]Do you care where your coins have spent the time since they last were spent as money?&nbsp; I, personally, have no interest in &#039;coins&#039; that never were used as coins (collectibles, non circulating legal tender etc.) but I do enjoy the thought of what hands have touched my coins.&nbsp; As far as I know there is no ancient coin that carries a provenance back to antiquity but there are a few that have been in collections for quite a while.&nbsp; My example below was sold at auction in 1971 when the Massachusetts Historical Society decided they had no use for a collection of non US coins that belonged to President John Quincy Adams.&nbsp; I believe that was an ill advised move but I sure am glad they did it.&nbsp; All of us have the opportunity to own a coin from the collection as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>The collection was sold by Stacks at auction but most coins were not illustrated in the catalog and many were grouped together in lots of varying sizes.&nbsp; Many of the coins were not terribly high grade.&nbsp; Unfortunately, except for the few illustrated coins, we can not prove that a coin was in the sale.&nbsp; Buyers were provided with tickets saying a coin was in the sale but there is no guarantee that there was not a switch since that time.&nbsp; We know that this lot contained a coin of this description but there is no proof that this is that coin other than the ticket.&nbsp; That fact prevents coins from the collection from selling for a premium unless they were among the few that were illustrated.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have run across rather few coin from the sale over the years.&nbsp; acsearch.com provides six if you search &#039;Quincy&#039; of which one mentions being accompanied by the ticket.&nbsp; Keep an eye open for examples.&nbsp; I do recommend buying the Stacks sale catalog if you find one.&nbsp; It may be worth more than the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Galerius Caesar / Genius / Aquilea mint[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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