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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Limes, post: 5036356, member: 101013&quot;]That truely is a beautiful coin. Congratulations. I can imagine why it stuck with you, after you initially missed it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes and no. For the coinpond im fishing in, there&#039;s generally always another coin. Surely, I do regret it if I&#039;m outbid. And due to budget limitations I too often have to chose between two or more coins I really would like to bid in, ultimately ending up with only one, or none. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance and pedigrees are a peculiar thing. I understand that one would like to know the famous hands that have handled a several-thousand-dollar-coin, and that a good provenance can influence the value of a coin. </p><p>But what suprises me, is that the lesser coins generally completely lack a provenance. I mean, surely, a common, VF Marcus Aurelius denarius is unlikely owned by some Royal, but at one time it either had 1) a collector-owner, or 2) came out of the ground somewhere. Why are there generally zero mentionings of the history of common coins? Even if it was owned by someone &#039;ordinary&#039; (I hate saying this because I truly believe everyone matters equally!)</p><p>So, for this reason, I have decided to leave the ones who will take care of my coins after I&#039;m gone, with a good provenance: not only do I always the note the seller I got a certain coin from, they are all part of the official &#039;Limes Collection&#039;. Every coin I have ends up in a book i&#039;m writing: where I got the coin from, a description of the event, ruler etc on it, and why I like it. The official guide on the Limes Collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the long post...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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