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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2832506, member: 44316&quot;]Almost any quoted pedigree can be invented unless the catalog had a photo, and photos were not common in sales before about 1950. Any criminal can claim such-and-such a coin is from the old Lord such-and-such collection sale if it had a coin of the type because in the old days very few of the coins were illustrated. For example, the major firm M&amp;M did not even illustrate their fixed-price catalogs at all until issue number 77 (1948). I have many Seaby catalogs from the 1970s that are only partially illustrated. They offered many excellent coins without photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>I, personally, think the OP coin is false (because of the odd prow). If that is so, it is not hard to imagine a seller inventing a false pedigree to go with a false coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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