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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 7848500, member: 104741&quot;]Perhaps also a good thing to remember: legal is not (necessarily) the same as ethical. Pre-1970 or 2010 or pre-whenever tells you exactly nothing about the circumstances under which the coin originally was dug up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know what percentage of the coins for sale at any time is recycled material and what percentage is new. But I&#039;m quite sure that a fair number of the new coins</p><p>for sale wouldn&#039;t pass close scrutiny. If they would have come from official and registered hoards, the sellers would be only too eager to mention it, simply because hoard-provenance sells. Like [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] said, many auction houses are not really interested (and, possibly, at times actively <i><u>not</u></i> interested) in provenance, and that&#039;s at least partly out of (legal) self-preservation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of us have unprovenanced coins(to use a nice euphemism) in our collection.</p><p>If that was an accusation, then I&#039;d be guilty as charged.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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