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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2342551, member: 56859&quot;]That&#039;s a pretty strong and abrasive statement.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure why you think they &quot;do it by hand&quot;.&nbsp; From their website:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The strength of Ex-Numis® is based on the unique association of an exceptional numismatic database and new technologies of Digital image recognition.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Thanks to this Digital image recognition system, we can hunt quickly and efficiently for a lost Provenance within almost one million records of Ancient coins (Greek, Roman, Byzantine &amp; Celtics) sold through auctions from the end of the 19th century to the begin of the 2000&#039;s (before coinarchives &amp; ACsearch).</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Our database (built up over many years) represents a library of thousands of auction catalogues from every parts of the world.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ars Classica S.A, Adolph Hess Nachf., Dr. Jacob Hirsch, Otto Helbing, Münzen &amp; Medaillen AG, Münzhandlung Basel, Sally Rosenberg, Felix Schlessinger, Adolph Hess AG &amp; Bank Leu AG, Numismatica Ars Classica, Auctiones AG, Frank Sternberg AG, P&amp; P. Santamaria, Schweizerischer Bankverein, Spink Taisei Numismatics Ltd, Glendining &amp; Co. LTD, Rodolfo Ratto, Rolin &amp; Feuardent and many more.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Their introduction allowed for 25 free credits (5 searches; although for some reason I only received 20 credits).&nbsp; So my submissions, while unfruitful, did not cost anything.&nbsp; I might pay for a few more submissions at some point in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think Doug raised some good points about who will find this service valuable and what they might pay.&nbsp; As many have pointed out, it doesn&#039;t make much sense for coins below a certain threshold of value.&nbsp; IdesOfMarch01 offered a more collector-friendly business model.&nbsp; I hope the owners seriously consider his suggestion.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for not caring about past owners or provenance... to each his own.&nbsp; I <i>like</i> knowing the ownership history of my coins and in some instances might be willing to pay extra for that information.&nbsp; The ever-increasing burden of proof of provenance for sales and exportation also raises the importance of such a service.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although the mechanism and business model could use improving, I&#039;m happy there is such a service and hope that it improves over time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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