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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8215890, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks so much for the detailed explanation!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have noticed frequently that if a coin has provenances to auctions in, say, 2005 and 2020, the dealer will usually mention the 2005 provenance but stay silent about the 2020 provenance. Presumably, they don&#039;t want you to know what they paid for the coin themselves and the extent of their profit.&nbsp; And are relying on the probability that most collectors won&#039;t do the five minutes of additional research necessary to find the more recent sale. Not I&#039;ve ever brought up the more recent sales price except one time a couple of years ago when a dealer annoyed me by refusing to discuss any discount, no matter how small, even though he was asking more than double what he had paid a few months earlier. The last time I checked, he hadn&#039;t sold it yet, or lowered his asking price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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