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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 6528207, member: 74282"]It's more than gossip - most coins with specific named provenances come from sales of named collections or from sales that are anonymous but where later the identity of the collector comes out. An auction house could try and make that up but very few collectors collect in a vacuum - most of those named provenances are for people who were well known in the collecting community during their time and people would catch on if an auction house were simply inventing provenances.</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been cases, such as the "John Quincy Adams" collection where there were later family members who continued adding to the collection and you can't really be certain whether many of the coins were actually JQA's or are later but most of those coins do not realize the sort of provenance premium that they would if they were surely attributed to JQA.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 6528207, member: 74282"]It's more than gossip - most coins with specific named provenances come from sales of named collections or from sales that are anonymous but where later the identity of the collector comes out. An auction house could try and make that up but very few collectors collect in a vacuum - most of those named provenances are for people who were well known in the collecting community during their time and people would catch on if an auction house were simply inventing provenances. There have been cases, such as the "John Quincy Adams" collection where there were later family members who continued adding to the collection and you can't really be certain whether many of the coins were actually JQA's or are later but most of those coins do not realize the sort of provenance premium that they would if they were surely attributed to JQA.[/QUOTE]
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