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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5205136, member: 19463"]Since all coins have a provenance what makes one special over the other is what name is on the coin if we know it at all. If you happen to be a king or author of the definitive text on the coin, your name will be kept with your coins. If you are a nobody like me, no one will care. Many of the provenances most valued do not require anything more than age with coins traceable to the 1700's having more swagger than those from the 1900's and infinitely more than things dug up last week and never in a 'name' collection. Certainly part of this is a belief that the government will confiscate all coins not traceable to a certain date as stolen goods but the fact is, almost every coin 2000 years old was probably stolen at least once in all that time ('pickpockets' existed before there were 'pockets') and predicting what some government will do is not something done easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>I consider it cool to know my coin belonged to someone of whom I have heard but I am not willing to pay several times a price to have it traceable to someone in the last century. I have many coins traceable to the last century mostly because I have owned them 20 to 60 years. Dealers are not beating down my door to buy them for my name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5205136, member: 19463"]Since all coins have a provenance what makes one special over the other is what name is on the coin if we know it at all. If you happen to be a king or author of the definitive text on the coin, your name will be kept with your coins. If you are a nobody like me, no one will care. Many of the provenances most valued do not require anything more than age with coins traceable to the 1700's having more swagger than those from the 1900's and infinitely more than things dug up last week and never in a 'name' collection. Certainly part of this is a belief that the government will confiscate all coins not traceable to a certain date as stolen goods but the fact is, almost every coin 2000 years old was probably stolen at least once in all that time ('pickpockets' existed before there were 'pockets') and predicting what some government will do is not something done easily. I consider it cool to know my coin belonged to someone of whom I have heard but I am not willing to pay several times a price to have it traceable to someone in the last century. I have many coins traceable to the last century mostly because I have owned them 20 to 60 years. Dealers are not beating down my door to buy them for my name.[/QUOTE]
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