It takes two to make a fight so this particular remaining muse may be able to buy for a fraction of his price limit (aka 100x my limit, at least). Many of my favorite Severan coins came from the sale of a collector with too much money who dropped out as fast as he dropped in. I wonder if we will be seeing the Shiek sale? I must admit I was rooting for some of these guys to decide they were too good for coins and start buying pottery or something.
As a funny little bit of gossip, I guess this guy was in the coin market for a while then dropped out, only to come back for Greek coins. His first collection he pursued was Islamic coins, but stopped when he effectively bought EVERYTHING, effectively every Islamic coin type ever struck. Here is to hoping he doesn't have the same collecting goal for Greeks, or more importantly all ancients.
Reading this story, I had these two guys in mind; an oil rich Shiek and an oil rich Texan having a bidding war. Maybe they'll wrestle for it!
No, it's gonna be the Iron Shiek vs Hilbilly Jim! (Shown here putting me in a sleeper) Guys. He's a paper money dealer. F'real
Just to further follow up with ancient coin collecting gossip, I guess none of the auctions from early 2012 were ever paid for by this buyer, so the coins are getting resold. It seems this buyer is no longer participating in this field, but prices are still strong. A club member bought one that was not paid for, and had to pay higher than last year's hammer price to own it. I know this is old news to some here, but since I am just a collector I feel free to bring up the gossip. I heard NYINC was spotty overall. Some weakness in auctions at times, but many of the cheaper lots in the auctions were bought up by dealers and resold on the floor the next day for a profit. Floor business seems to be good, but much less material was available than usual.
