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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shea19, post: 8216218, member: 90981&quot;]On the subject of provenance/pedigree, the first coin that I ever shared on CT was this Alexandrian tetradrachm with portraits of Nero and Tiberius, which is still one of my favorites.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1442290[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was especially excited about the great pedigree it came with: the auction listing said it was from the “S. Pozzi collection.”&nbsp; I later learned that I had fallen for Leu’s little “Pozzi” scheme…the coin wasn’t <i>actually</i> from the famous Pozzi collection, it was from a 1970s collection of some other collector also apparently named “S. Pozzi.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I was obviously upset and thought about trying to return the coin, but ultimately, I kept it, because I just really liked the coin. I decided that it didn’t matter as much to me whose collection the coin <i>used </i>to be part of…it’s part of my collection now, and I’m happy it’s there.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I definitely learned a valuable lesson from this coin: the pedigree in an auction listing is not always accurate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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