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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24827944, member: 26430&quot;]I don&#039;t think ACSearch membership will help with this one -- I highly doubt the provenance extends before 2000. (I should add that it&#039;s well worth it overall, though. Also, great coin.) When did you buy it? I&#039;m guessing more recently than early 2020?</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins used to be much scarcer. If you look in ACSearch, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=tars+hoplite+horse&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=tars+hoplite+horse&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=1" rel="nofollow">there are at least 140 records (using just one set of keywords) since 2000</a> (including some for the type with hoplite right). The vast majority of them are from sales <i>in the past 3 years</i> -- since 2020 -- and have no reported prior provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>What that means is that there was almost certainly a large hoard found (or finally sold) about then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless the coin is much darker than it appears in the photo, the surfaces are consistent with a recent find, or at least recent cleaning (and look similar to many of the others that are new to the market).</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about finding provenance for coins is that large numbers of them have nothing more to find, no matter how hard you look. (It is certainly possible to buy coins for which there is likely to be additional provenance information, but you have to have that in mind when making the purchase for it to reliably work out.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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