Great provenance, Andrew! Was that coin the subject of a previous Forum thread in which we discussed the veracity of Dardell's etchings?
Yes. I'm doing homework at the moment. Here are a few with three or more
good provenances:
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NAC78 lot 1913 ex Auctiones 10 (1979) lot 507 ex Munzen Medaillen
Basel FPL 215 (
Sep.1961) lot 71 (CHF 300) ex Clement Platt, 28 June 1923, lot 221 (57 francs)
Kuenker 262 lot 7872 ex
Lanz 88 (23 Nov.1998) lot 842 as unpublished with R.R.P.C.
legend [just a pair of provenances, but an interesting numismatic note that was left off the more recent sale!]
Triton XI (7 Jan 2008) lot 616 ex
CNG50 (23 Jun.1999) lot 1351 ex
Schulman 243 (June 1966) lot 1501 ex Adolph
Cahn 80 (27 Feb 1933) lot 548
NAC78 (26 May 2014) lot 497 ex Munzen Medaillen
Basel FPL 385 (1977) lot 37 ex Santamaria Feb.1958 lot 739 Brunacci coll.
NAC63 (17 May 2012) lot 469 RBW coll. ex
CNG43 (24
Sep.1997) lot 1767 ex Hess Leu 3 (27
Mar.1956) lot 349
Mario
Ratto FPL 1964 lot 294 ex Giuseppe De Falco FPL
Dec. 1960 lot 243 @38000 Lire via Naville 13 (22 Feb.2015) lot 138
NAC78 (26 May 2014) lot 454 JD coll. ex Auctiones 10 (1979) lot 403 ex Munzen Medaillen
Basel FPL 189 (April 1959) lot 41
Triton XVII (6 Jan.2014) lot 536 ex Archer M. Huntington Collection,
ANS 1001.1.10566 via The Hispanic Society of America 1955
Kuenker 262 (2015) lot 7661 ex
Lanz 88 (23 Nov.1998) lot 226, Leo Benz coll. ex Munzen Medaillen
Basel 52 (June 1975) lot 371
CNG e237 (21 Jul.2010) lot 237 = Alföldi 1974
type XIX, pl.CXLI,37 (this coin) Professor L.Fontana coll. [a book-plated coin is always nice]
NAC78 lot 1778 ex
Lanz 88 (23 Nov.1988) lot 154 Leo Benz coll. ex Rodolpho
Ratto FPL 1933-XI lot 236
CNG93 (22 May 2013) lot 1079 ex NAC61 (5 Oct.2011) lot 729 = RBW734 ex Sternberg 26 (16 Nov.1992) lot 237
Triton 1 (2
Dec.1997) lot 998 Goodman coll. with
his ticket (acquired
Spanish collection 1986)
NAC78 lot 544 ex
Astarte XIX (2006) lot 850 ex
Ratto FPL 1933-XI lot 135
NAC83 (20 May 2015) lot 256 Student Mentor coll. ex
Lanz 44 (16 May 1988) lot 330 ex Mario
Ratto FPL Apr.1968 lot 160
Leo
Hamburger 19 Oct.1925 lot 229 Niklovitch coll. via V.England 10
Dec.1988 with dated ticket via RBW duplicate
CNG web item 873035 (2010) Professor Fontana coll. ex
Ratto FPL 1933-XI lot 1000 ex Baranowsky 25 Feb.1931 lot 1246 Joseph
Martini & Valerio Traverso colls. ex
Ratto FPL 1927 lot 586 [eye-brow raising that a coin with three
good 1920s-1930s provenances sold at retail with the old provenances of course lost, but now recovered]
CNG43 (24
Sep.1997) lot 1328 Goodman coll. ex
Morgantina B
hoard per CNG notes
Leo
Hamburger 19 Oct.1925 lot 203 Niklovitch coll. ex Glendining 19th July 1950 lot 455
Henry Platt Hall coll. purchased by
Spink ex
Vecchi 3 13th Sept. 1996 lot 78
Fallani coll. via RBW duplicate
Peus 355, 27 Apr.1998 lot 197 ex Grandt-Nielsen ex Ex Paul Proschowsky ex NF 9/10 57 nr.9 (Numismatisk Forening sale 9th October 1957 lot 9)
NAC61 (5 Oct.2011) lot 214 RBW coll. ex C.Hersh ex Platt Hall Glendining July 1950 lot 461 ex
Hamburger 96, 1932 lot 273 ex 1923
hoard =
Hersh Overstrikes NC 1953 p.53,62d = RBW 199
NAC64 (17 May 2012) lot 907 JD coll ex
Vecchi 17 (15
Dec.1999) lot 618 ex
Peus 322 (1 Nov.1988) lot 36 with notes (1400 DM)
NAC64 (17 May 2012) lot 885 JD coll. ex
Lanz 88 (23 Nov.1998) lot 8 Leo Benz coll. ex Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung (15
Dec.1978) lot 198
Munzen Medaillen 2 (27
Mar.1998) lot 308 ex Mario
Ratto 26 Jan.1955 lot 18 Giorgio coll. (again just a pair, but it's for a 14/1
Aes Grave as which was an exciting discovery - it's very
rare to
provenance aes grave)
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I'm working hard on this each evening at the moment. It's gratifying how far back you can push the
average provenance-age with some concentrated
work. I've just done a string of
CNG coins for which I pushed their
average provenance 'date' from 2010 to 2000. That's quite a big pushback given that many coins will have no older
provenance than the date I purchased meaning those I do find typically go way back. The above list is typical - full of recent
CNG and NAC dates yet mostly provenanced to before 1970. You can see the format I use from the above. A convention I use is that to start with the most recent printed
auction or major online sale (such as
CNG); minor esales which might go dark or private or retail purchases go at the end prefaced with "via": if they are unverifiable and inconsequential - e.g. a dealer-flip after an
auction - they may eventually be left off my sale record. My format aims for zero ambiguity - no shorthand such as "Hess 11, 3, 10, 10" which leaves one entirely unclear whether this was Hess sale 11, March 1910, lot 10, or Hess sale on 11th March 1910, lot 10, or Hess sale 3rd November 1910, lot 10, or Hess sale 11 on 3rd October 1910 or Hess sale 11 on 10th March 1910 or whether all the 1910s should in fact be 2010.
It takes very little ink to spell it out.