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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1581577, member: 24091&quot;]I see what you&#039;re saying then.&nbsp; Problem is, especially with slabbed coins, most of that provenance information is lost or destroyed.&nbsp; Case in point, I own the Pittman 1905 Danish West Indies 4 Daler --NGC MS65 and pedigreed.&nbsp; And according to Northeast Numismatic, the coin was purchased by Pittman for $43 from Hans Schulman back in 1961.&nbsp; I had asked them about the provenance thinking it might have been an eX-Farouk coin which would have made for a great story.&nbsp; And maybe it was, Schulman attended the sale in 1954 along with his buddy Pittman.&nbsp; But the chances of that story being passed on beyond me to the next collector is limited, especially if the coin were consigned to a large auction house at some later date.&nbsp; In all likihood, they would consider the additional information beyond what is on the slab as superfluous .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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