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<p>[QUOTE="Carthago, post: 2342768, member: 76111"]Provenance simply refers to prior ownership. </p><p><br /></p><p>Photographic record is the best way to identify your coin from old records, but photos only start to be available in the late 19th century. Prior to this, sometimes there were very accurate line drawings that are suitable for provenance matches. For instance, I bought a book last month from the RBW Library sale that includes a line drawing of the Labienus aureus in the British Museum. My book was printed in 1827 and the coin was purchased by the BM in 1867, so the coin was drawn from a private collection at the time! While this is a museum coin, I know people who have found coins in their collections today that were hand illustrated in 18th century publications. [ATTACH=full]476204[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]476205[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carthago, post: 2342768, member: 76111"]Provenance simply refers to prior ownership. Photographic record is the best way to identify your coin from old records, but photos only start to be available in the late 19th century. Prior to this, sometimes there were very accurate line drawings that are suitable for provenance matches. For instance, I bought a book last month from the RBW Library sale that includes a line drawing of the Labienus aureus in the British Museum. My book was printed in 1827 and the coin was purchased by the BM in 1867, so the coin was drawn from a private collection at the time! While this is a museum coin, I know people who have found coins in their collections today that were hand illustrated in 18th century publications. [ATTACH=full]476204[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]476205[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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