Late Roman Bronze Coins
General discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Victor on July 23, 2015, 06:53:41 PM
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Here is a link to sign a petition against a law, that if passed, could negatively impact numismatics--
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/fuer-den-erhalt-des-privaten-sammelns
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Signed
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I signed the petition and read the proposed law. Among other things, it creates the need for a lot of documentation when selling and buying coins. I assume this is to help provide provenance and track coins that may have been looted or stolen. This is a stupid requirement for the hundreds of thousands of average grade, cheap ancient coins.
This makes me think about my own record keeping. I started collecting ancient coins in the mid 1980s. I have kept most of the sales slips showing how much the coin cost and where it came from. I don't know if this will help me sell my collection someday. Coins from major auction sales and those that are plate coins create provenance. I wonder how much benefit there is in keeping sales slips from Vcoins, ebay, etc. Will potential buyers care where and when a coin was purchased years ago? None of my coins have any provenance older than seventy-five years. In all my years of collecting I have seen just a few coins sold having provenance older than a hundred years.