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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2282021, member: 42773&quot;]A rugged tetradrachm IS pretty in my book. The Emmett provenance is certainly desirable, but I am not one to be bothered by coins with lack of provenance. After all, if a coin is authentic, it has provenance enough - it was minted by an ancient culture and traded by ancient hands, anonymous as those hands may be. Even after several years of collecting, those facts continue to fascinate me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Catalogers don&#039;t search for the prettiest coins in the world - they search for any half-way decent example of a particular type they can get their hands on. Personally, I would love to have a few of Lindgren&#039;s coins, but man, he collected some crap, just to get it into his books. That&#039;s not a criticism, mind you, but I&#039;ve often <u>passed</u> on Lindgren&#039;s coins and paid <u>more</u> for better examples with no provenance. Each to his own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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