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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2525838, member: 76194&quot;]Not much. Truth be told, 99% of coins have next to no provenance, and a highly expensive provenance search through one of those &quot;Find the Provenance&quot; services will find zero provenance, or nothing before the late 1990s or early 2000&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why? Because before digital photography became so cheap and easy to use, and especially before the internet became so advanced, most auction catalogs did not contain photos, except for a handful of &quot;high value&quot; coins. So if you are purchasing coins in the $1000+ price range, yeah, chances are you can find old provenance for it. But for a $50-200 coin...good luck!</p><p><br /></p><p>You are concerned about provenance for cheap coins, start making your own. For example, when you sell your coin, send your ticket to the buyer with the date you bought it, or the sale date. Also include whatever provenance you get on your coins in your ticket in case the old provenance gets lost you can at least have the record for it in your ticket, so the new owner can refer to it. So save any old tickets that come with your coin, or at least record the provenance in your ticket if you won&#039;t save the old one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also note that coins sold through private parties (ie. one collector to another) you will not be able to find any provenance for that online searching some auction house catalog, so record it in the coin ticket so future owners can have that provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s as simple as this:</p><p><br /></p><p>Caracalla</p><p>Roman Empire</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>Obverse: blah blah blah</p><p>Reverse: blah blah blah</p><p>Reference: lalala</p><p>Ex: David Cameron (2010)</p><p>Ex: Deacon Ray (2014)</p><p>Ex: Sallent (2016)</p><p>Ex: Donald Trump (2016)</p><p><br /></p><p>There, we just created some provenance for a future collector to know and show where his coin came from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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