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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7544708, member: 110350&quot;]A beautiful coin.&nbsp; I hope that someday it will be easier to identify really old provenances like that; the only ones I have at the present time from before 1970 that are identified are one ex-Dattari Collection coin and one East Harptree Hoard coin.&nbsp; Right now, the available image searches aren&#039;t remotely adequate to the task -- they&#039;re not perfect even in identifying coins of the same type, let alone the same coin -- even apart from the fact that the substantial majority of pre-2000 auction catalog photos aren&#039;t in such databases to begin with. So it seems to me that it&#039;s presently more a question of luck, and the amount of time one is willing to spend going through old photos, than anything else. Obviously, having old tickets along with a coin can provide clues to provenance and can be very helpful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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