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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3515366, member: 74282&quot;]This is a real shame. I recently managed to hunt down provenances for several coins by sending scans of old tickets from the 90s to a previous collector who was able to extend the provenances as many as 15 years by decoding a series of codes and monograms written on those old tickets. That would never have been possible without actually having those old tickets in-hand. I also managed to trace a coin that was previously only documented as &quot;ex Boston MFA&quot; back to the original 1932 bequeathment that the museum received it from, another provenance hit only possible because the original ticket was included with the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I&#039;ve begun doing every time I find an undocumented provenance for a coin purchased at auction is to go on ACSearch and add that provenance to the comments for the coin. Ideally any future collectors will get either my envelopes and notes on the coin or at least my digital notes and provenance scans but failing that the notes will also be there on ACSearch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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