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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8455242, member: 26430&quot;]I have only done test runs using the image searches available and I&#039;m still skeptical of the success rate (though I have no doubt that every old provenance will become readily available at some point). I tried it with a coin I knew was illustrated in the Pozzi sale but wondered where it had been since, and the Pozzi record didn&#039;t come up. I also tried a little bronze from Prowe-Egger III with a distinctive edge chip, and they didn&#039;t catch that either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, for most coins I suspect of having old provenances, I&#039;ve already found one or more intervening sales, and don&#039;t want to pay the 25 or 50 eur or whatever if all they find are the ones I already know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, I&#039;d rather just see all the scans in their databases organized by mint or weight and manually check.</p><p><br /></p><p>The technology should be really great for detecting certain forgeries too (that&#039;s where I expected to see it first). It seems like there&#039;s also great software for identifying die matches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once the tech gets there, I wonder if I&#039;ll feel all my hours &amp; years of catalog searching were wasted. But I&#039;m looking forward to learning how many coins being sold these days had lost century-old histories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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