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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24901259, member: 26430"]Good coin, [USER=115032]@Noah Worke[/USER] ! There were a bunch with those little paper tags affixed. I don't have any of those ones yet, but might've had it on my VCoins watchlist (others have been at auction). I collect "provenance coins" and "captives coins," so I noted all those fitting both categories. Writing collection numbers or hoard numbers in India ink was common practice at least until WWI. A few collectors even stamped a distinctive mark into the surface of their coins (similar to the bibliophilic practice of bookplates), c. 15th-early 20th centuries. But actually gluing little paper rectangles to the coin like this collector was not common -- for reasons that are easy to understand! (I've seen a couple other old collections like that, but not many). When this one hit the market a couple years ago, it must've been the largest surviving collection of those paper labels still affixed to the coins (at least a few hundred) after 120 or 200 years or whatever. (I'm guessing 19th century, but could be later -- after WWII would surprise me, though -- or earlier, I guess.) Personally, I would leave that label where it is. It's only real value is intellectual, not commercial. But if it comes off (intentionally or otherwise), I would also make sure to save it like any other collector tag. (It will be especially interesting if someone works it out whose collection that was.)[/QUOTE]