Have you ever bought a coin just because of provenance?

Thanks for the replies and the education on the oversimplification of provenance that I used. With all that is going on in Ancients, it's looking like provenance will be almost a mandatory part of the field.
As for me, I guess I guess it's just the idea of owning something (remote though it may be) from a collector that I admire. I figure if I can get a coin I like AND I can imagine it either being studied (something Virgil Brand said he found imperative) by one of the greats it pretty neat. That said, like many, I'm on a budget and wouldn't grossly overpay for an ugly coin.

 

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Sometimes threads hang with no real conclusion. Just an update, I did end up getting a token. I had several that I was watching and somehow my timing just wasn't right to view them when they were up (pesky work!). While I bid on numerous items, shame on me for not doing my research though I didn't want to way overpay for something that I had no knowledge of.
Most of the MS pieces went out of my budget range quickly or were of no interest thematically. Hence, I ended up with a 1845 Umbrella and Parasol Token. I overpaid a bit at 48 plus crazy minimal commission and 7.95 shipping, though I really like the token theme (umbrellas) and it's an AU 58 problem free (could have gotten several damaged or ungraded tokens cheaper, though I do like that it indicates that it's from the Virgil Brand collection (I'm sure he prized this one and looked at it every night in his study!
Anyway, didn't break the bank and now I'm officially a "star chaser"! One article I read about Mr. Brand was that he loved researching about the items he collected. I'll be sure to do the same.

 

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snickered?


[I just had to do that.]

 

LOL should have been "Stickered" dollars.
I do try to proof read my post before I submit them

 

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1960 Paris Summit medal. Note the word "from" on the obverse.

 

I wouldn't be interested unless say, George Washington or some other historical figure owned it and he got his fingerprint on the coin. The one time fingerprint damage seems attractive lol.

 

I own provenance coins, but not because they are. I bought them at auction and later discovered they were ex-Newman and ex-Highland.