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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3202568, member: 74834"]Provenance of coins rarely exceeds a century, but coins must have been collected for 25 centuries, I'm sure! I started with my father-in-law's coins, and he had meticulously compiled a system with cards in a ring binder, jotting down were his coins were bought or found. A few Roman coins came right out of the ground where he was living (well, in the next village). Others were bought in 1969 or 1970. That's pretty ancient for coin provenance. </p><p><br /></p><p>With books it is different. I have a book about Roman emperors illustrated in coins, written by George Chanler the Elder. It was published in a Dutch translation in 1617, and this book has a bookplate of a former owner of about 1700. Here's the bookplate, full of dragons, leopards and snakes devouring little leopards (?!). Now that's an early provenance. (Alas, I don't know the name of the bookplate owner). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3202568, member: 74834"]Provenance of coins rarely exceeds a century, but coins must have been collected for 25 centuries, I'm sure! I started with my father-in-law's coins, and he had meticulously compiled a system with cards in a ring binder, jotting down were his coins were bought or found. A few Roman coins came right out of the ground where he was living (well, in the next village). Others were bought in 1969 or 1970. That's pretty ancient for coin provenance. With books it is different. I have a book about Roman emperors illustrated in coins, written by George Chanler the Elder. It was published in a Dutch translation in 1617, and this book has a bookplate of a former owner of about 1700. Here's the bookplate, full of dragons, leopards and snakes devouring little leopards (?!). Now that's an early provenance. (Alas, I don't know the name of the bookplate owner). [ATTACH=full]829160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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