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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Limes, post: 8216345, member: 101013&quot;]Thanks for sharing your insights. It&#039;s interesting to read what the different viewpoints are on this matter. Some specific contributions below that I would like to reply to, but apologies for the long post. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am, as are you, a collector is historical objects. Isn&#039;t it a loss that so little is known of the previous owners of our coins? Assuming that the coins I buy and don&#039;t have a provenance going back to the 1970&#039;s and before that, acutally have owners and are not dug up illegally...! Of all my coins, I know of only a few venues that sold them before, and I have I think two provencances going back to the last century (read: 1999 something...). Is it because sellers don&#039;t want to be mentioned, and remain anonymous? Especially with non-consumable objects such as ancient coins, I&#039;d be interested to know about the history of ownership. Maybe I&#039;m the only one though. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And then there&#039;s the value of a provenance. I applaud you Terence, that you are able to find provenances like that. Same goes for e.g. Andrew McCabe who has shared his hunt for provenances on this board before. I should perhaps put more effort into it, but often end up with nothing after a search on e.g. acsearch. Where to begin after that? Also, I don&#039;t think any of my coins would have been objects in the more noteworthy auctions in the past, let alone be part of a sellers&#039; paper catalogue. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve noticed this too. Sometimes, with a quick search, you can find the previous auction where the seller bought the coin from and the price paid. This is indeed the case with retail sellers. I wonder also, if they deliberately don&#039;t mention the venue the seller bought the coin from, to avoid getting the price known? Too bad, because it&#039;s a gap in a coins&#039; history... </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As [USER=117268]@Amit Vyas[/USER] suggest, if collectors&#039;tickets could support digital information about a coin, and pictures/gif&#039;s like yours, I think your coins would be very much sought after! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To conclude, I would think that someone interested in ancient coinage would know the difference between &#039;the limes collection&#039; (again, an example for a name) and a limus falsum. Then again, I read above about the confusion caused by the name &#039;Pozzi&#039;. Confusion occurs easily, so I&#039;d better come up with a new name... And cheapskate (though I don&#039;t think it does justice to your collection and contributions) is already taken ;-)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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