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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8233811, member: 26430&quot;]Oh, haha, I wasn&#039;t even thinking about your initials -- but in my file of provenance notes for one coin I did actually write &quot;the other AK&quot; next to your name! <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/egyptian-drachm-with-a-provenance.354986/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/egyptian-drachm-with-a-provenance.354986/">The Antoninus Pius Alexandria Drachm with Griffin/Nemesis you posted on CT a while ago</a> that was a K&amp;G plate coin and previously in the Morris/Peck, Wetterstrom, and V. Ruzicka Collections. (CNG didn&#039;t list you as consignor, I just recognized it from CT.) It also came with the catalog of the Ruzicka Collection, which was great:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448061[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I also recalled seeing at least one post on your CNG consignments when googling around for prior provenances, so whenever I&#039;ve gotten a coin from CNG in an NGC encapsulation I wondered if they were yours. (For example, another Provincial from Phil Peck/Morris, the Severus Alexander Provincial from Lydia, Acrasus. As far as I can tell, it may be the best known example, but I don&#039;t know if it&#039;s ever been photographed out of the holder. I only crack them out if I have a reason, which in this case would be to get a better photo to send in to RPC. I haven&#039;t seen Dane Kurth&#039;s GRPC yet, though, so maybe there was already be a better on in there....)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1448059[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, that is some appreciation in price on the coin from Heritage! That&#039;s &gt;32 times pricier the 2nd time around, that&#039;s some kind of record for the same dealer selling the same coin twice, I expect! As you say, it raises one of the interesting commercial reasons that provenances are often &quot;lost&quot;. Unprovenanced coins aren&#039;t necessarily freshly smuggled out of Turkey or something, as some would have us believe, but because the sellers naturally don&#039;t want it known what they or someone else paid.</p><p><br /></p><p>As David Atherton said above, I think your photo failed to attach, but I&#039;d be very curious to see what coin it was!</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I can tell, Seventko&#039;s collection is notable mainly just for it&#039;s association with the start of slabbing ancient coins. I wonder how he felt about it -- the prices looked awful for the Tarsus Staters, and not great for the other stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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