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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 5214288, member: 86498"]Made a mistake. The importance of provenance or pedigrees is more dependent upon what you collect and what your plans for your collection might be in the future. I live in Canada and thus the market for some of what I collect might be rather small and so I would like to be able to send my coins out onto the international marketplace. The good pedigrees are something akin to insurance so that when i decide to sell my collection I can send it to the US or European market without fear of confiscation. Right now this is NOT the case however I do want to be pro active. I used to collect military firearms including automatic weapons and I have some experience of having to deal with governments being interested in my hobby and deciding that they needed to deal with it with ever increasing restrictions.</p><p> However the hunt for provenance can lead one down some very interesting rabbit holes. Last January I bought this coin. Yes everyone has seen it. It has been in my 2020 Top 10.[ATTACH=full]1215746[/ATTACH] Gallienus Av Reduced Aureus 266-267 AD RIC 118 1.43 grms 18 mm Photo by W. Hansen. I found it in the Roma E auction 66 Lot 1116 and it referred to it being in the NAC Auction 49 Lot 375 (2008) When I looked up the NAC auction it is now that I ran into Apostole Zeno. NAC claimed that it was in the Zeno Collection Lot 2013 sold in 1955. This was not confirmed by Roma which is a bad sign. Okay looked up the Zeno Auction[ATTACH=full]1215747[/ATTACH] Well this is clearly not the same coin. but I continued to search[ATTACH=full]1215748[/ATTACH]Found it. The coin is clearly lot 2019 which is confirmed by Gobl. So what do I got here Well...[ATTACH=full]1215749[/ATTACH] The coin was originaly owned by this guy Apostolo Zeno who wrote operas for the Haspburg royal family. First he lived in Venice. [ATTACH=full]1215750[/ATTACH] Then he moved to Vienna[ATTACH=full]1215751[/ATTACH] Eventually the coin got here to the Monastary of St Florian[ATTACH=full]1215752[/ATTACH] Where it stayed until it put up in auction and bought by this guy[ATTACH=full]1215756[/ATTACH] Leo Biaggi de Blasys. He was a major collector of Roman Aureii and at one time was worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross This is his signature[ATTACH=full]1215757[/ATTACH] It let this guy named in this document as Ricardo Klement get into Argentina and it is at his trial the world became familiar with the word Mossad[ATTACH=full]1215758[/ATTACH] Adolph Eichmann YUUUCH Nazis Well for a while the coin stayed here in Genoa[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 5214288, member: 86498"]Made a mistake. The importance of provenance or pedigrees is more dependent upon what you collect and what your plans for your collection might be in the future. I live in Canada and thus the market for some of what I collect might be rather small and so I would like to be able to send my coins out onto the international marketplace. The good pedigrees are something akin to insurance so that when i decide to sell my collection I can send it to the US or European market without fear of confiscation. Right now this is NOT the case however I do want to be pro active. I used to collect military firearms including automatic weapons and I have some experience of having to deal with governments being interested in my hobby and deciding that they needed to deal with it with ever increasing restrictions. However the hunt for provenance can lead one down some very interesting rabbit holes. Last January I bought this coin. Yes everyone has seen it. It has been in my 2020 Top 10.[ATTACH=full]1215746[/ATTACH] Gallienus Av Reduced Aureus 266-267 AD RIC 118 1.43 grms 18 mm Photo by W. Hansen. I found it in the Roma E auction 66 Lot 1116 and it referred to it being in the NAC Auction 49 Lot 375 (2008) When I looked up the NAC auction it is now that I ran into Apostole Zeno. NAC claimed that it was in the Zeno Collection Lot 2013 sold in 1955. This was not confirmed by Roma which is a bad sign. Okay looked up the Zeno Auction[ATTACH=full]1215747[/ATTACH] Well this is clearly not the same coin. but I continued to search[ATTACH=full]1215748[/ATTACH]Found it. The coin is clearly lot 2019 which is confirmed by Gobl. So what do I got here Well...[ATTACH=full]1215749[/ATTACH] The coin was originaly owned by this guy Apostolo Zeno who wrote operas for the Haspburg royal family. First he lived in Venice. [ATTACH=full]1215750[/ATTACH] Then he moved to Vienna[ATTACH=full]1215751[/ATTACH] Eventually the coin got here to the Monastary of St Florian[ATTACH=full]1215752[/ATTACH] Where it stayed until it put up in auction and bought by this guy[ATTACH=full]1215756[/ATTACH] Leo Biaggi de Blasys. He was a major collector of Roman Aureii and at one time was worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross This is his signature[ATTACH=full]1215757[/ATTACH] It let this guy named in this document as Ricardo Klement get into Argentina and it is at his trial the world became familiar with the word Mossad[ATTACH=full]1215758[/ATTACH] Adolph Eichmann YUUUCH Nazis Well for a while the coin stayed here in Genoa[/QUOTE]
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