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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5213683, member: 110350&quot;]Speaking of provenance (the subject of another thread yesterday), all the dealer who sold me the Pupienus disclosed was the always-helpful information that it came from &quot;an old collection.&quot; (Do they ever say a coin came from a young collection?) I&#039;ve written to ask if there&#039;s anything at all he can tell me beyond that, but he hasn&#039;t answered yet. He did enclose with the coin these two old coin tickets:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1215710[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1215711[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t suppose anyone gets any clues from these tickets? The only thing I noticed was that the Seaby 2316 number someone wrote on the second ticket -- along with correcting the Cohen number and crossing out &quot;Fr. 10,&quot; whatever that means (not francs, I think!) -- matches the number for the coin in Sear&#039;s <i>Roman Coins and their Values</i> (3rd Rev. ed. 1981), which I happen to have. So I think it&#039;s reasonable to guess that someone wrote that in the 1980s, perhaps before the next edition of Sear came out in 1988.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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