The one that got away...........

Even with my best efforts and willingness to pay heaps, this Commodus, Augusta Traiana coin just kept going up at the just closed biddr.ch auction,
I wanted it to complement my Septimius Severus (193-211 AD) coin of the same location. Interesting only about 20 years earlier the difference in the rendering of the city gate/battlement towers. Commodus had an arched entrance gate, and five windows in the towers. Septimus Severus had square doorway, and a row of what looks like windows above. Anyway I will live to fight another day, directly below the Commodus of similar size and weight to an Imperial sestertius, and below that my coin. Thrace, Augusta Traiana, Septimus Seveverus 15.4gm, 29mm Varbanov 961.

 

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Maybe the Romans did a little remodeling to the city gates to keep up with fashion? I don't think it bodes well not to keep up with the latest styles, especially with something that every visitor will see. It would be like having a modern home but having the kitchen be all 1970s retro style.

 

Yes your probably right, but I would kill to have windows in mine.

 

Cool coin, sucks you lost, but we all have to lick our wounds and fight another battle!

 

If I had a dollar for every coin I lost at auction, it would probably buy me an Abbasid dirham or a common 3rd century Denarius. In July alone, my worst month at auction, I got outbid on 9 different coins.

 

Sorry to hear you lost that terrific bronze---what a fantastic reverse!!

I can easily understand it going for far more than I can usually afford too. But there's always another to go after....

 

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Thanks for your sentiments Mikey Zee, I should have relised how hard it would be as the coin is cited to be extremely rare.

 

Thanks Mat I got a constellation prize for trying a nice Sicily, crab coin https://www.cointalk.com/posts/2517132/

 

Shake hands partner! I lost out on two really neat coins that I really wanted

They were....
AV 20 Marks from Schaumburg-Lippe 1904-A Stempelglanz
AV Stater Baktria Diodotus I 230 BC Mint State

But I did luck out on...
AV Mohur 1758 Alamgir II Mughal Empire Mint State
AV 1/2 Sovereign 1866 London Mint Victoria YH Mint State
AV Tremissis Visgoths Tulgan EXT RARE EBC+ Spain Cordoba Mint

 

Congratulations panzerman, that auction seemed a bit more pricey than usual.

 

I wanted this CNG Hadrian sweety ... but sadly, I didn't have enough coin-cash to bring it home (*sigh*)



=> super cool 3-Way Janus reverse

... maybe next time?

 

Yes it is a nice coin a little bit different, was that in the biddr. auction steve?

 

Ummm, what's the biddr. auction?

either way, here is the link

https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=320126

sure, it wasn't that expensive, but after vacation and two new vehicles I'm lucky to be scoring my $60 examples!! (I'm runnin' on fumes, my friends!!)

 

The biddr.ch is the new auction platform Pecunum use along with NAC and a couple of others, same sort of thing as sixbid.

 

Yes the Canadian dollar is not much better than the Aussie for every 300 add another 100. Where did we go wrong.

 

Hey, at least we don't have The Trump!!



=> long live the Queen!!

 

Yea I'm the same been reduced to buying 80 euro crab coins.

 

This remind you of something? nice little mark up........https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ar...adrian__as__janus_reverse/787180/Default.aspx

 

Yeah, but I would rather have Trump running the show in Queen's Park, then who is in charge presently