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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 24633097, member: 86498"]Unfortunately most of my provenance hunting has to be done the hard way. The slog through countless auction cats and FPLs looking for that one gotcha. Though I must admit it sometimes does drag me down some rather interesting rabbit holes.  Okay one day some months ago I was wandering through the R Numis site and found this coin.  Taras Ar Nomos  240-238 BC Obv Youth holding a garlanded palm frond  riding prancing horse right Rv Dolphin rider left. 6.34 grms 20 mm[ATTACH=full]1566906[/ATTACH]I had bought ths=is coin from Tom McKenna back in 1986 so.... But looking through the Rudolfo Ratto Auction Held on January 28 1929 I noticed that lot 566 sure looked like it. [ATTACH=full]1566907[/ATTACH]As a bonus the coin came from the Claudius Cote Collection. Back in the day his collection was a primary source for the identification of the coins of Taras. [ATTACH=full]1566908[/ATTACH] Things are looking pretty good but then I decide to look at the text and this is what it recorded. [ATTACH=full]1566909[/ATTACH]  That's right the coin is from the famous Pozzi collection as well. I looked up the Naville auction and struck out. However S. Boutin in his book Collection Pozzi (1979) Lists my coin as no 385. As Pozzi was murdered in 1918 this would probably mean that my coin has a provenance of at least that date. Apparently Pozzi had planned to publish his collection and had engaged the services of A. Dieudonne of the Paris Coin Cabinet to catalogue his collection. The plates and much of the text had already been finished, however, Pozzi' death ended the project. [ATTACH=full]1566910[/ATTACH] Paint in Pozzi by John Singer Sargent now in Hammer Museum[/QUOTE]

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