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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3003985, member: 56859&quot;]Remember two years ago when we were excited about the new provenance-searching company, <a href="https://www.ex-numis.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ex-numis.com/" rel="nofollow">Ex-Numis</a>?&nbsp; Many of us submitted coins with the free introductory credits offered.</p><p><br /></p><p>I submitted four coins I thought were likely to have &quot;lost&quot; pedigrees but unfortunately there were no hits.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just got an email saying they&#039;ve been improving their software and they found a hit for one submission-- two years after I submitted the images.&nbsp; It&#039;s nice to know they were telling the truth when they said they&#039;d run the submissions over and over as their database grows and as their software improves!</p><p><br /></p><p>The new provenance information not anything exotic or interesting, just an old CNG mail bid sale, but it&#039;s still a nice to know.&nbsp; CNG&#039;s online archives only go back to the early 2000s and the hit was from a 1995 mail bid sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any excuse to show off this coin again works for me <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Plus, it was one my favorite writeups.&nbsp; I had such a fun time making that diorama!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/elagabalussacredstone-rt-jpg.574868/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Elagabalus, 218-222 CE</p><p>AR denarius, 19.4 mm, 3.5 gm</p><p>Antioch, 218-219 CE</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; ANTONINVS PIVS FEL AVG, Laureate draped cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; SANCT DEO SOLI / ELAGABAL, Quadriga right, bearing sacred Baetyl stone, flanked by four parasols</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; RIC IV 195</p><p><i>ex Vauctions 310, lot 250 (25 Sept 2014)</i></p><p><i>ex CNG Mail Bid Sale 33, lot 914 (15 March 1995)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Most of you have probably already seen the old writeup <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, but in case someone new hasn&#039;t...</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-a-boy-and-his-stone.254886/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-a-boy-and-his-stone.254886/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-a-boy-and-his-stone.254886/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/elagabalusdiorama8-jpg.363489/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Has anyone else here received a hit notice recently from Ex-Numis?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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