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<p>[QUOTE="Helvetica, post: 4966813, member: 75944"]Apart from the reason given by benhur767, there is also the point that most of the big coin dealers simply do not have the time to reply to the many emails they receive about provenance, or even to requests to use images in theses, articles, presentations etc. Most of the big sellers let me grant third-party permission in their name, of their coins on wildwinds.</p><p>One great success I DID have in tracing the provenance and location of a coin for my GRPC Lydia books. The coin was described very vaguely and in about 8 words in Price's work on coins with architecture, - from Price I traced it to Mionnet, then back to Vaillant, then back to a sale by an Austrian shop in the early 1800s, then back to a collection in the late 1700s, and I finally tracked down the coin itself to the Prague National collection ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Helvetica, post: 4966813, member: 75944"]Apart from the reason given by benhur767, there is also the point that most of the big coin dealers simply do not have the time to reply to the many emails they receive about provenance, or even to requests to use images in theses, articles, presentations etc. Most of the big sellers let me grant third-party permission in their name, of their coins on wildwinds. One great success I DID have in tracing the provenance and location of a coin for my GRPC Lydia books. The coin was described very vaguely and in about 8 words in Price's work on coins with architecture, - from Price I traced it to Mionnet, then back to Vaillant, then back to a sale by an Austrian shop in the early 1800s, then back to a collection in the late 1700s, and I finally tracked down the coin itself to the Prague National collection ![/QUOTE]
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