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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cplradar, post: 5379162, member: 108985&quot;]These examples say nothiing about the need to find providence.&nbsp; They say volumes about the need to do even further providence for the reasons you say... in the 1920&#039;s some of them might have been stolen.&nbsp; Because of the sloppiness of the business, it is even LIKELY that they were stolen at some point. Providence chains often have breaks.&nbsp; It makes them no less eseential.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now, everything is cloak and and dagger. It is immoral, and it undermines conifdence in market.&nbsp; You ask the dealer who the seller is... they refuse to tell you.&nbsp; A spot light needs to shine on all of this until the cockroaches scatter.&nbsp; This is the INTERNATIONAL standard for ll antiquities.&nbsp; BTW that Dime you are showing.&nbsp; I am very interested in its origins.</p><p><br /></p><p>To make this clear, no dealer should take on consignment or trade in coins where there isn&#039;t reasonable evidence that the coins weren&#039;t stolen and with reasonable proof.&nbsp; This providence then needs to be recorded, as far back as one can reasonable go.&nbsp; One can obviously not conjure up evidence that doesn&#039;t exist, but that doesn&#039;t preclude one from attempting to do just that.</p><p><br /></p><p>With slabbed coins, there is really no excuse.&nbsp; The slabber, seller and buyer should all have a track record of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>One needs to be confronted that the MAJORITY of coins have been stolen at some point, and that the market is completely insecure because of this.&nbsp; Almost every dealer I know has been robbed, and a vast number of collectors.&nbsp; This KILLS the value of coins and suppresses the market.&nbsp; The only reason more people are not indited for selling stolen property is because cops are lazy and hiring lawyers is more expensive than the coins themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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