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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8217038, member: 110350&quot;]You&#039;re not the only one. I always find it interesting when a coin has any kind of ownership history attached to it, whoever owned it -- and even if that history doesn&#039;t add anything at all to the coin&#039;s monetary value -- if I can find something out about the person named. For example, a Roman Alexandrian tetradrachm of Hadrian with an Agathodaemon on the reverse that I posted last night in the Follow the Coin Theme Game thread, purchased from cgb.fr, came with only the name of the previous owner. I used Google to find out everything else I wrote about him in my coin description, after I confirmed that it was the right person:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Ex. Collection of Aymé Cornu (1926-2020) (Engineer. - Head of the mass spectrometry laboratory at the Center for Nuclear Studies in Grenoble, France; see <a href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/" rel="nofollow">https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12598408/aime_cornu/</a>).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Would I pay a dollar more for a coin with that provenance than I would pay for an equivalent specimen with no provenance at all? Probably. 100 dollars more? No. Nonetheless, I do find it interesting that a French nuclear engineer who lived for almost a century was a collector of Roman Provincial coins. That history adds flavor, although one hopes that radioactivity doesn&#039;t accompany it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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