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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24733003, member: 26430&quot;]Nice one! My Republican collection is relatively small, so I haven&#039;t tried much to trace any to possible hoard reports, but I&#039;ve been meaning to. (One challenge is that published hoard reports are more limited for RRC than Greek &amp; RIC, for which I have many ex-hoard coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, though, being familiar with published hoards -- <i>especially hoards documented in commerce!</i> -- is a great way to find additional provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one I&#039;ve just added (but not yet received). I bid on it because I was aware of additional provenance, and that this was a &quot;plate coin,&quot; but it wasn&#039;t mentioned in the auction listing:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582186[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b>Argolis, Epidauros AR Hemidrachm</b> (14mm, 2.55g), c. 290-250 BCE.</p><p><b>Obv</b>: Laureate head of Asklepios left.</p><p><b>Rev</b>: EΠ monogram in wreath.</p><p><b>Ref</b>: <a href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=snr-003%3A1993%3A72%3A%3A34&amp;referrer=search#34" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=snr-003%3A1993%3A72%3A%3A34&amp;referrer=search#34" rel="nofollow">Requier 105</a> (this coin illustrated on pl. 5).</p><p><b>Prov</b>: Ex 1979/80 Epidaurus Hoard (Coin Hoards VII, 69; CH VIII, 298); <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=162124" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=162124" rel="nofollow">CNG 84 (5 May 2010), 502</a>, BCD Collection; <a href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-B4W4GQ/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-B4W4GQ/" rel="nofollow">CNG EA 547 (4 Oct 2023), 155</a>, Weise Collection.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>In both previous sales this coin was referenced as &quot;Requier, Monnayage, series 1, dies D3/R4&quot; and ex-BCD Coll. with no mention of the Hoard. However, the reference is incorrect.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, it is from die-pair D4/R4 -- for which it is the &quot;plate coin&quot; (105) in <a href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=snr-003%3A1993%3A72%3A%3A34&amp;referrer=search#34" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=snr-003%3A1993%3A72%3A%3A34&amp;referrer=search#34" rel="nofollow">Pierre Requier&#039;s 1993 SNR article</a> (p. 37 &amp; pl. 5, edited below for format), identifying it as having come from the 1979 Epidaurus Hoard:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582187[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I had about 6-10 &quot;plate coins&quot; on my watchlist in CNG&#039;s auction yesterday. Wherever CNG listed the publication (for this &amp; a couple others they didn&#039;t list it), the coins sold for very high premiums over non-provenanced examples of type.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why I try to bid on/buy coins for which I&#039;m aware of lost/unmentioned provenances and publication histories: I got this one for less than most comparable examples &amp; 1/3 less than it&#039;s sale 13 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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