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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3293837, member: 19463&quot;]My point is that I value provenance that sows the coin was &#039;good enough&#039; for a person I respect (there is a longer list than you might believe) but I really don&#039;t care about which dealer took a coin on consignment or bought it wholesale with no interest in the item.&nbsp; Of course time adds interest since it is good to know that a coin was in any collection a hundred years ago.&nbsp; Tom Cederlind passed away with a collection of coins that meant something to him and a group of coins he just had not sold yet.&nbsp; I would very much like to associate with him with his private collection but not so much his normal dealer stock of things he hoped to sell soon.&nbsp; This last class is not ex. Cederlind &#039;collection&#039; in my view. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been embarrassed seeing CT postings of coins as ex. Doug Smith collection because the coins I consider &#039;collection&#039; are the ones I keep and not the ones I sent off to market.&nbsp;&nbsp; They may be perfectly good coins but they are not what I want to be remembered by.&nbsp; Some were in my collection and got replaced but others were part of large lots I bought to get other coins and never intended to keep.&nbsp; I see a difference.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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