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<p>[QUOTE="Cicero12, post: 5205475, member: 114838"]I would echo [USER=109923]@John Conduitt[/USER]. I believe provenance serves his two outlined points. On his first point, provenance adds an additional layer of assurance that a coin is real. Of course, old and important collections did have fakes, and some, such as Mazzini, had quite a few. However, when a coin has passed through the hands of many notable collectors and dealers, it does lend the coin additional gravitas.</p><p><br /></p><p>On his second point, I believe “where a coin has been” is important for 2 reasons. The first is that the coin may come from a line of distinguished or interesting collectors, such as famous archaeologists, nobility or even royalty. This may help increase value as some collectors, like myself, do enjoy owning coins that belonged to well-known collectors. Additionally, and as noted by others in this thread, knowing where a coin has been, and how long it has been on the market, helps give assurances it was not recently looted, and so is not subject to MOUs that are, or may come, into effect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cicero12, post: 5205475, member: 114838"]I would echo [USER=109923]@John Conduitt[/USER]. I believe provenance serves his two outlined points. On his first point, provenance adds an additional layer of assurance that a coin is real. Of course, old and important collections did have fakes, and some, such as Mazzini, had quite a few. However, when a coin has passed through the hands of many notable collectors and dealers, it does lend the coin additional gravitas. On his second point, I believe “where a coin has been” is important for 2 reasons. The first is that the coin may come from a line of distinguished or interesting collectors, such as famous archaeologists, nobility or even royalty. This may help increase value as some collectors, like myself, do enjoy owning coins that belonged to well-known collectors. Additionally, and as noted by others in this thread, knowing where a coin has been, and how long it has been on the market, helps give assurances it was not recently looted, and so is not subject to MOUs that are, or may come, into effect.[/QUOTE]
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