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<p>[QUOTE="Bart9349, post: 5238105, member: 5682"]I guess I'm different from most on these boards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance, other than possibly improving chances of authenticity, means little to me. Does it guarantee authenticity? Nope. Nothing does. Do I feel better because I have a piece of someone's previous collection? No. I guess as a non-numismatist, previous ownership means little to me. (I admit I would find a coin more interesting if one could prove it belonged to a historically significant person such as Louis XIV of France or Thomas Jefferson, however.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But by my knowing that a coin comes form a specific hoard, I feel like I'm really "holding a piece of history in my hands."</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an inexpensive and otherwise unremarkable example of my point:</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1217610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1217605[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1217607[/ATTACH]</p><p>(My visitor, not my pictures.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is the coin rare or expensive? No, but the history, for me, is priceless:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217608[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://yorkcoins.com/bridgnorth_hoard.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://yorkcoins.com/bridgnorth_hoard.htm" rel="nofollow">http://yorkcoins.com/bridgnorth_hoard.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to put a coin into a historical context is the most exciting aspect of numismatics for me.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bart9349, post: 5238105, member: 5682"]I guess I'm different from most on these boards. Provenance, other than possibly improving chances of authenticity, means little to me. Does it guarantee authenticity? Nope. Nothing does. Do I feel better because I have a piece of someone's previous collection? No. I guess as a non-numismatist, previous ownership means little to me. (I admit I would find a coin more interesting if one could prove it belonged to a historically significant person such as Louis XIV of France or Thomas Jefferson, however.) But by my knowing that a coin comes form a specific hoard, I feel like I'm really "holding a piece of history in my hands." Here's an inexpensive and otherwise unremarkable example of my point: [ATTACH=full]1217610[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1217605[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1217607[/ATTACH] (My visitor, not my pictures.) Is the coin rare or expensive? No, but the history, for me, is priceless: [ATTACH=full]1217608[/ATTACH] [URL]http://yorkcoins.com/bridgnorth_hoard.htm[/URL] Trying to put a coin into a historical context is the most exciting aspect of numismatics for me. g[/QUOTE]
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