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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 24725001, member: 74282"]Here's a fun place to find provenance: hoard reports. Pierluigi Debernardi published "The M-Hoard of Early Roman Republican Denarii and a New Chronology for the Later Anonymous Silver Series" in the Numismatic Chronicle 181(2021). I actually had read the paper a couple of times but one night while I was recently working on a list of different hoards and flipping through it again I noticed a very familiar coin on plate 11, T15_24. This hoard which hit the market starting circa 1988 through various venues, was huge at over 1000 coins and only a small number are illustrated, but the reverses of all of the Crawford 57/2 crescent denarii are shown:[ATTACH=full]1581855[/ATTACH] Sure enough, that's my Crawford 57/2. It doesn't really add much as I already knew the coin was ex RBW who purchased it from Paul Vecchi in 1988 but it does add an interesting new entry to the coin's history and provenance.[ATTACH=full]1581856[/ATTACH] I love seeing my coins illustrated in publications. Sometimes they provide some more information like this, other times it just allows me to add to the notes about the coin that it's illustrated in such-and-such or is the plate coin in so-and-so's book, which I'm happy with as well.[/QUOTE]