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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7287777, member: 86498"]I checked Triton XVIII for lot 120 and it appears to be a bronze of Tigranes II. This is not the most egregious error I have seen. One time I was looking at a tetradrachm of Kos in a European Auction. The pedigree stated that it was in one of their previous auctions something like a few years previous. I looked it up. It was not the same coin. Ooops. With the increasing interest with pedigrees one can assume that individuals will attempt to create spurious auction provenances for their coins. This is a problem and will most likely get worse. However another problem is simple carelessness. Up to about six years ago I was really oblivious to the need keep histories of my coins. Why would I care if my coin came from some collection of a person that I never knew or even heard about.</p><p> Now I am more interested however some years ago I divided my coins into two groups; the ones I planned to keep and the much larger group that I had planned to dispose of. The second group has been whittled down to the point that it now consists of 4 coins. One of the coins that I had planned to sell had a actual CNG E Auction tag. Okay a pedigree. Or so I thought. After writing it up I decided to take a look to see what I had actually paid for it and discovered it was not the same coin. Curses. At some point the coin was switched. Ooops Had I not checked that coin would have went to the auction house with an erroneous provenance. It might have even got into the auction with that bogus record.</p><p> All I can say is that; if you are interested in buying coins with pedigrees you had better do as much research as you can to ascertain if the information given is accurate.</p><p>Tetradrachm of Kos very similar to the one mentioned above. 280-250 BC Obv Head of beardless Herakles in lion skin headdress right. Rv Crab. HGC 1308 15.16 grms 28 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1276010[/ATTACH]Ever since I first saw one of these I wanted one. I find it interesting that this coin is still on the older Chian weight standard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 7287777, member: 86498"]I checked Triton XVIII for lot 120 and it appears to be a bronze of Tigranes II. This is not the most egregious error I have seen. One time I was looking at a tetradrachm of Kos in a European Auction. The pedigree stated that it was in one of their previous auctions something like a few years previous. I looked it up. It was not the same coin. Ooops. With the increasing interest with pedigrees one can assume that individuals will attempt to create spurious auction provenances for their coins. This is a problem and will most likely get worse. However another problem is simple carelessness. Up to about six years ago I was really oblivious to the need keep histories of my coins. Why would I care if my coin came from some collection of a person that I never knew or even heard about. Now I am more interested however some years ago I divided my coins into two groups; the ones I planned to keep and the much larger group that I had planned to dispose of. The second group has been whittled down to the point that it now consists of 4 coins. One of the coins that I had planned to sell had a actual CNG E Auction tag. Okay a pedigree. Or so I thought. After writing it up I decided to take a look to see what I had actually paid for it and discovered it was not the same coin. Curses. At some point the coin was switched. Ooops Had I not checked that coin would have went to the auction house with an erroneous provenance. It might have even got into the auction with that bogus record. All I can say is that; if you are interested in buying coins with pedigrees you had better do as much research as you can to ascertain if the information given is accurate. Tetradrachm of Kos very similar to the one mentioned above. 280-250 BC Obv Head of beardless Herakles in lion skin headdress right. Rv Crab. HGC 1308 15.16 grms 28 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1276010[/ATTACH]Ever since I first saw one of these I wanted one. I find it interesting that this coin is still on the older Chian weight standard.[/QUOTE]
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