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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 24840129, member: 91820&quot;]Wonderful article&nbsp; -&nbsp; unfortunately, I purchased much of the higher grade coins in my collection from Eastern European sellers during the &quot;amazing influx&quot; of ca. 2000 - 2008 (when I was buying).&nbsp; I doubt very much I will ever be able to find provenance on any of these coins.&nbsp; I do have an IMP X Pax sestertius of Septimius Severus purchased about 10 years ago on French ebay and previously posted on this site that Curtis Clay was able tell me that, amazingly enough, was part of&nbsp; a collection of a well known British scientist - I did find a book dated about 1830 +- with his collection online and inside - there was my coin.&nbsp; I will try to enlarge on this with a picture&nbsp; of the coin and a link to the book, or whatever it was that showed the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Blake </p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. There are some amazing auctions going on in the next month or so.&nbsp; Included in these auctions are hundreds of group lots with thousands and thousands of coins.&nbsp; It looks like a large number of these have desert patina - makes sense since that part of the world is in upheaval - somehow that means large numbers of coins make it to market from that part of the world.&nbsp; Makes me wonder if the &quot;amazing influx&quot; referenced above was related to the war in Serbia - or was that just a coincidence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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