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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 2136880, member: 19409&quot;]Yeah, it&#039;s far from ideal, but I still think it&#039;s better than nothing.&nbsp; If we can keep the chain of ownership known, we can help determine whether something came from a recent dig or not, and that&#039;s a start.&nbsp; I.E. if I saw a coin that looked like it fit right in that Antioch Gallienus Hoard, but I can trace it to a collector who sold his collection before that hoard became public, I&#039;d know that I at least wasn&#039;t getting a coin from that particular illegal dig.&nbsp; Ideally, all dealers would at least list where they got all of their coins from, so we could chose a coin from &quot;Joe Smith from Alabama&quot; or &quot;A wholesaler from Turkey who wouldn&#039;t give me further information.&quot;&nbsp; The former wouldn&#039;t guarantee that it&#039;s from a legal dig, but I&#039;d still be more comfortable than the latter.&nbsp; And even if we can&#039;t get everyone to do that, if such documentation became the norm, we&#039;d at least have an easy way of avoiding recent digs and hopefully lower demand for coins of unknown origin enough to discourage the practice of digging them somewhat.&nbsp; There is no solution that&#039;s going to completely fix the problem, particularly with so many coins with unknown histories on the market and in collections, but I do think we can try to help improve things a little bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I have done a rather poor job of keeping track of this myself.&nbsp; It was only recently that I started thinking much about this, and I probably couldn&#039;t tell you where half my coins came from, and only two have any provenance beyond the person I directly bought them from (and one of those just traces back to a store on VCoins).&nbsp; I&#039;m going to try to do better in the future in general.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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