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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Factor, post: 6505123, member: 96413&quot;]Today I have learned that few of my coins have in fact very interesting provenance, they originate from the Thomas Ollive Mabbott collection which was auctioned back in 1969. Most of them came from the same group lot I picked up at CNG a few years ago, but others came from other sources. Interestingly, two of them were sold back to back: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259961[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is their description from the sale catalogue:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259962[/ATTACH] </p><p>I got the Joppa coin in a group lot from CNG (well, it was actually the reason I bought this lot to begin with), while Neapolis coin spent few years in Frank Sternberg&#039;s stock and then in a US collection before it landed in my hands last summer:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1259964[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I looked at the prices realized by the way, and was blown away by the numbers. Most of these city coins, probably with the exception of the best quality ones, will not bring same numbers on today&#039;s market, even without inflation adjustment, and with the adjustment it will be an order of magnitude loss on investment, if not more than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show your coins from old collections that are reunited again![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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