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I've been watching an interesting program on "The History Channel" which has been looking at famous guns dating back to the Shot heard 'round the World in Lexington up through the assassination of Presidents Lincoln/Garfield/McKinley and various infamous outlaws and assassins. They're currently talking about Oswald and his weapon of choice, but when they started discussing some of them like Billy The Kid, that strange word, provenance, crept into the narration.
Our great little hobby is probably one of the few areas where 'provenance' is commonly discussed and understood in it's full/correct meaning. We see it in publications when rare and famous coins come to auction, such as recent CW articles that have traced the ownership of coins back in time over 100 years. Pedigrees are issued on inserts to establish provenance and I wondered if anyone else has concerned themselves with tracing ownership of coins in their collection?? Does anyone besides me ask questions when they purchase items which will almost certainly be held for quite some time, perhaps decades?? Does anyone else save copies of submission forms that note coins they've "made" for future reference or to provide to future buyers??
Just wondering, that's all. It seems it might be appreciated in the future for a new owner to know where the coins came from, how they happened to come to his/her collection.
Al H.
Our great little hobby is probably one of the few areas where 'provenance' is commonly discussed and understood in it's full/correct meaning. We see it in publications when rare and famous coins come to auction, such as recent CW articles that have traced the ownership of coins back in time over 100 years. Pedigrees are issued on inserts to establish provenance and I wondered if anyone else has concerned themselves with tracing ownership of coins in their collection?? Does anyone besides me ask questions when they purchase items which will almost certainly be held for quite some time, perhaps decades?? Does anyone else save copies of submission forms that note coins they've "made" for future reference or to provide to future buyers??
Just wondering, that's all. It seems it might be appreciated in the future for a new owner to know where the coins came from, how they happened to come to his/her collection.
Al H.
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on a related note, member Clevegreg was one of the first Registry participants. he was already an advanced Jefferson collector when PCGS kicked off the idea, so he just listed his coins and ended up with the top set which was pedigreed as Drude Coll. they show up at eBay every once-in-awhile and Greg told me he's bought some back, ala Jack Lee and his wonderful Morgans.
You need to get back to work!!
in keeping track of where one aquired their coins.
Beyond that though, I cannot trace any further.
I bet it is only high end coins OR more personal coin transactions
where one can trace the history of ownership back to the mint.
or am i wrong? do some people have a common widget that they ca
trace back 100 years?
of course thats new provenence but every set starts smoewhere !
Proof
<< <i>I was trying to attribute a variety once when it finally struck me my coin was the one pictured in the book! So, I know where that one came from
that is very cool.