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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carthago, post: 2342673, member: 76111&quot;]On a parallel thread there is debate about the value of searching for provenances.&nbsp; While some of the value may simply be intrinsic, there is very real value - like financially - to knowing the earlier history of your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this coin from Tom Cederlind (RIP) several years ago at NYINC.&nbsp; The top photo is what it looked like when I bought it...a darn nice example with great portrait detail for the type.&nbsp; Some time later, like I think 2-3 years, I ran across the 2nd example in CoinArchives from a sale maybe a decade earlier than when I bought the coin.&nbsp; Hmmmm, it looked like my coin but something didn&#039;t look right...my Antony had more hair detail than the older one!&nbsp; How could this be?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]476192[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]476193[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The 3rd photo below shows you 3 coins.&nbsp; Mine &quot;before&quot; at the bottom, mine &quot;after&quot; in the upper left hand side, and what I believe to be an obverse die match example in the upper right so you can see what the real die based hair detail should look like.&nbsp; See the detail difference due to the forger&#039;s hand?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]476191[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I took this to a coin show and showed it to several major dealers before bringing it back to Tom.&nbsp; Most had no explanation other than it had obviously been tooled, but one of them told me that it looked like laser tooling.&nbsp;&nbsp; I thought he was nuts, but I&#039;ve since learned that it happens, or at least did happen, for a time. Very dangerous coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tom took the coin back no questions and gave me my money back.&nbsp; He used to tell me every time I&#039;d see him &quot;You know, I&#039;ve still got that Antony.&nbsp; It&#039;s a very dangerous coin and we still don&#039;t know what to do with it.&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s how we would start every conversation.&nbsp; LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>So this is one reason of several why I think it is important to know the history of your coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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