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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3497095, member: 76194"]Well, I'd like to thank [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] for at least helping me to fill another bit of history for my coin. I now know much more than I did before, namely that:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. My coin was probably sold as part of an over the mail auction by Numismatics Fine Arts in the early 1970s... (this company would later be involved in a major criminal scandal for smuggling stolen antiquities).</p><p><br /></p><p>2) At some point the coin came into the pocession of dealer Joel L. Malter, and he sold it for $79.50 in 1975</p><p><br /></p><p>3) SC bought the coin from Joel Malter in 1975.</p><p><br /></p><p>4) This coin ended up being sold by Civitas Galleries in 2015 to me in Florida.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this coin has gone in 50 years from the hands of a convicted smuggler in California, to an unknown collector probably in California too, to Joel Malter also in California, to SC somewhere in southern California, to Civitas Galleries in Middleton, Wisconsin, to some collector in South Florida (me).</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure there's more story to it, but not bad...right? Most non-expensive Republican denarii don't have that kind of provenance (most don't have any).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3497095, member: 76194"]Well, I'd like to thank [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] for at least helping me to fill another bit of history for my coin. I now know much more than I did before, namely that: 1. My coin was probably sold as part of an over the mail auction by Numismatics Fine Arts in the early 1970s... (this company would later be involved in a major criminal scandal for smuggling stolen antiquities). 2) At some point the coin came into the pocession of dealer Joel L. Malter, and he sold it for $79.50 in 1975 3) SC bought the coin from Joel Malter in 1975. 4) This coin ended up being sold by Civitas Galleries in 2015 to me in Florida. So this coin has gone in 50 years from the hands of a convicted smuggler in California, to an unknown collector probably in California too, to Joel Malter also in California, to SC somewhere in southern California, to Civitas Galleries in Middleton, Wisconsin, to some collector in South Florida (me). I'm sure there's more story to it, but not bad...right? Most non-expensive Republican denarii don't have that kind of provenance (most don't have any).[/QUOTE]
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