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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dollarcrazy, post: 56817, member: 1877&quot;]Now I&#039;m not downplaying this guy&#039;s buy but just because a coin has a &quot;name&quot; such as Comstock or even a collector&#039;s name such as Bass or Eliasburg doesn&#039;t make the coin rarer...its still just a coin with a name on the holder---now I&#039;m not a dealer, but if I was, and was selling a coin with the name Bass on the holder, I think I would sell the coin just as if it didn&#039;t have the name on there...it might make a &quot;new&quot; collector think its rare and buy something that in the long run is just a name.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Speedy, provenance plays a much larger role in modern numismatics than you could imagine. Owning one of the historically coveted specimens does not make that coin rare by it&#039;s self, the provenance does.</p><p>When I display coins I own at large coin and currency shows, the ones once owned or sold by people like Max Mehl, Lavere Redfield or Amon Carter are the ones I have always had the most and highest offers on. Not because they are the finest known, but because of the provenance. Coin and currency dealers alike want to handle this material in order to attach their own names to the history and chain of custody, regardless of the population consensus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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