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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24693223, member: 26430"]Hey [USER=87809]@cmezner[/USER] -- I'm fairly confident I've found a bit of additional provenance for your Faustina Drachm. CNG only gave "Rocky Mountain Collection of Alexandrian" but this coin was previously sold at Antioch Associates Buy-Bid Sale 40 (29 July 2002), Lot 140. (Henry Clay Lindgren's [1914-2005] firm set up to sell his collection duplicates.) [ATTACH=full]1575920[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1575921[/ATTACH] Unfortunately Lindgren didn't use the best photos (badly clipped by hand with scissors in those days) or provide weights, but the longer you compare the edge cracks & wear pattern etc., the more clear it'll be that it's the same coin. Differences are due to photo technology of the time. It's not specifically stated, and it's not published in his books (I don't think), but it's presumably from the Henry Clay Lindgren Collection. At this time he had abandoned his plans for volume 4 of his collection & was selling them through Antioch, which he repeatedly wrote he had founded to sell his personal collection. (He was a retired academic psychologist by profession.)[ATTACH=full]1575922[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]