Dear all, next week, the auction of NAC - the undisputed number one auction house for Roman coins - takes place. I would like to honor this event and take the opportunity to ask everybody to show his most favorite coin from this sale. I want to start with my personal favorite. It is a coin that is so amazing because the feeling I get from this item can be compared with infinite love at second sight. At first glance, when I saw the offer in the internet, I really thought that this item is rather a coin that belongs to EBay than to NAC. Just via browsing the real catalog, I was hinted that this coin is indeed something very different than a usual Elagabal denarius. It is preserving a unique portrait for the posterity that is showing us how the portraiture of Elagabalus was influenced by one of his predecessors. Just click on the coin's image to reveal the secret behind this tremendously fascinating issue. Greetings, Marc
I will withhold comment until after NAC and Nomos in the hopes that I win the coins I'm focusing on bidding
Respectfully I would agree. Posting coins you wish to hope is not something I would wish to do. Feel free if you know they are out of your price range, but please do not post coins you wish to bid on for fear you might drive up the price. I know I looked like a paranoid idiot a month ago not wanting to post a coin I desperately wanted until after the auction was over, but I won it. If I would have posted it here, and explained how cool it was, but got overbid I would have forever have wondered if I had created my own competition.
I'd go a step further than medoraman and respectfully suggest that we refrain from publicizing coins which are posted for upcoming auctions. Even if it is something you are not personally bidding on, one of your CoinTalk friends might be. Bringing its desirability into focus could bring unwanted attention and unwanted competition.
Dear fellow collectors, starting this tread, I did not expect such reactions. Although I am surprised, I highly respect your points of concern, which I am now understanding even very well. For me, it was a lessons learned and I highly appreciate your feedback. In the future, I will omit to upload pictures of coins that are for sale. Greetings, Marc Aceton
NAC and Nomos have both finished now, and I managed to win both of the coins I was hoping for I'll post them once I receive them, but I'm very excited! Was anyone else successful in these sales?
I succeeded with one in this morning's Nomos Another coin won several weeks ago may be lost. Tracking ends at the handoff from UK to US and neither side is taking responsibility . It's too early to call it truly lost though-- hopefully it will be delivered soon.
Unfortunately, I was not successful at NAC but succeeded with one lot at Nomos. It is a crisp sestertius being free of the suspicion that it has been tampered. My winning bid was 4'600 CHF.
Since the auction is over I will gladly post a dream coin from this auction. If I had the money this would have gone home with me so fast I would build a second triumvirate set of Antony/Octavian, Octavian/Lepidus, and Antony/Lepidus.
