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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2332316, member: 74282&quot;]I have a tiny number of coins that I may consider submitting at some point as a test but as others have mentioned, for most of my coins it doesn&#039;t make sense to spend up to ~$50 to find provenance, plus I enjoy the hunt and building my own auction catalog library. I use the following sites when hunting:</p><p><br /></p><p>ACsearch</p><p>DeaMoneta archives(10 euros a year)</p><p>CNG archives - use Google to search for better results using a query like &quot;site:cngcoins.com blah&quot;</p><p>CNG Printed Archives(<a href="http://issuu.com/cngcoins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://issuu.com/cngcoins/" rel="nofollow">http://issuu.com/cngcoins/</a>) -again, Google site search against either all of issuu.com (other dealers publish on it) or just against CNG Coins works well as Google seems to do a good job of OCRing CNGs scans so you can search their text</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a small but growing physical library of catalogs of the best RR sales that is useful and most of the catalogs were free (except for shipping) from dealers who were trying to clear out clutter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a coin that I haven&#039;t shared yet because I just won it in a European auction and don&#039;t have it in hand yet, but I was able to find unlisted provenance for back to 1991 by searching the CNG archives:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]472953[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]472955[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic AR Serrate Denarius(3.72g, 19mm). C. Naevius Balbus, moneyer, 79 BC, Rome mint. Diademed head of Venus right; behind, S•C / Victory in triga right; above, CCV; in exergue, C•NAE•BALB. Crawford 382/1b; Babelon Naevia 6</p><p>Ex. CNA XIV lot 693, March 20, 1991</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]472960[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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