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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3055290, member: 19463"]I found it interesting that the work offer by Spinks listed 886 catalogs from a period of 101 years as significant. I know that most of my coins have never been sold in a significant catalog but there are quite a few that I have found in old catalogs. I really prefer finding coins in a catalog myself rather than buying one with a laundry list of sales showing how many times it sold in the last decade. Certainly it is great to discover that I have a coin that was in the great Dattari collection, for example. TIF send me an image of a page from her Dattari-Savio catalog (I should buy this one) when we were discussing a coin on that page. The thrill was when I recognized two other coins on that page as currently being in my care. I had no idea. I had purchased them from auctions in the 80's and 90's but those catalogers did not mention this feature. I suppose it really makes no difference who owned the coin in 1907 but discovering it on your own remains a thrill. </p><p><br /></p><p>Two things shown below. Dattari-Savio used pencil rubbings not photos. Some types of marks show more in pencil and others in photos. We deal with that. Both of these coins have suffered damage (bronze disease) in the last 110 years. Those who collect Alexandrian billon may not be too surprised. That is scary to me. How many other coins in D-S have not been stabilized and have turned to dust? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]765390[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3055290, member: 19463"]I found it interesting that the work offer by Spinks listed 886 catalogs from a period of 101 years as significant. I know that most of my coins have never been sold in a significant catalog but there are quite a few that I have found in old catalogs. I really prefer finding coins in a catalog myself rather than buying one with a laundry list of sales showing how many times it sold in the last decade. Certainly it is great to discover that I have a coin that was in the great Dattari collection, for example. TIF send me an image of a page from her Dattari-Savio catalog (I should buy this one) when we were discussing a coin on that page. The thrill was when I recognized two other coins on that page as currently being in my care. I had no idea. I had purchased them from auctions in the 80's and 90's but those catalogers did not mention this feature. I suppose it really makes no difference who owned the coin in 1907 but discovering it on your own remains a thrill. Two things shown below. Dattari-Savio used pencil rubbings not photos. Some types of marks show more in pencil and others in photos. We deal with that. Both of these coins have suffered damage (bronze disease) in the last 110 years. Those who collect Alexandrian billon may not be too surprised. That is scary to me. How many other coins in D-S have not been stabilized and have turned to dust? [ATTACH=full]765390[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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