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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 3552206, member: 76111&quot;]There&#039;s just no way to make a link with your coin without a photo, accurate drawing with defining unique characteristics, or reference to this sale from subsequent owners/sales.&nbsp; If you have a named copy of sales such as Tolstoi or Prowe, you can sometimes search for provenances forward and perhaps find a sale of your coin that then can link it back to the text only source.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin below was pictured in Haeberlin with a note in the description that said &quot;bought from Hirsch 1901&quot;.&nbsp; Hirsch Auction 5 in May 1901 has an unillustrated example of the type with the same :L control mark as Haeberlin&#039;s (now mine) and I&#039;m pretty sure it&#039;s my coin but can&#039;t be 100% certain.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]943999[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then you have old line drawings, some of which are pretty accurate.&nbsp; Dardel was a famous numismatic illustrator in the 19th century and often would capture coins accurately enough that they can be identified in real life.&nbsp; This coin from my collection is, I believe, illustrated by Dardel in Cohen from 1857.&nbsp; It was sold as part of the Bourgey sale of Quadras y Ramon in 1913 so I know this coin was acquired in at least the 19th century and fits the potential narrative that it is indeed the Cohen illustration.&nbsp; It sure has a remarkably same huge flan and strike pattern.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]944013[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944012[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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