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Message:: [QUOTE="DrDarryl, post: 2855619, member: 39402"]There is a difference between the terms "provenance" and "pedigree". The term provenance has been abused by the numismatic community for many years. The following was taken from an entry I posted at my blog at the American Numismatic Association website. ProvenanceProvenance is normally used to show the legal title chain (chain of ownership/possession). This legal title chain is in the form of a partial title chain linkage or a full title chain linkage. Here are the definitions. Partial Title Chain Linkage  a. Start anywhere in the legal title chain  b. Be as short as a single person-to-person transfer of ownership/possession  c. Never be as long as the full title chain linkage Full Title Chain Linkage    a. Linkage start from the manufacturer  b. Include each and every person-to-person transfer of ownership/possession  c. Linkage ends with the the current ownership/possession PedigreePedigree is normally used to tie a numismatic object to:  a. An important collection (collector(s))  b. An important hoard (hoarder or hoard location)  c. An issuance (date or period of time)  d. An issuance event (date, time, and location)  e. A book's  plate "coin" Is provenance with Full Title Chain Linkage impossible to prove? Yes, for many issues. Can it be achieved? Yes ! [/QUOTE]