Does anyone happen to have the prices realized for CNG Mail Bid Sale # 47, from September 1998? ? The coin I'm interested in is # 1982 I've tried contacting CNG themselves, but no response so far, and the sale is too old to be on their web site. Is it OK to post requests like this here, or is there a better place for it ?
Hi ambr0zie. yes that's the coin, but the $200 is just the estimate. I'm after the actual price it went for, which would have been published separately. Interesting the estimates are all very high given that this is 1998. Maybe they were more realistic back then rather than today's low ball estimates.
Oh, when I am looking at past CNG auctions I always check this site https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_47 I thought those were the actual hammer prices, not estimates.
That's odd. At least they go back a bit further than ACSearch which stops at 2001. Thanks for checking!
I still have a worn, well-thumbed paper catalog with prices realized Lot 1982 realized $165 + 10% BP CNG 47 had a bunch of the countermarked Aegina "turtle" staters that seemed to be around for a long time and the last of the Goodman collection Roman Republic AEs. I had just started collecting ancients a few years before and this was the second CNG auction I bid in. I won: Seleukos I 312-280 BC AR tetradrachm 15.40 gm O: head Alexander right wearing leopard skin helmet R: Nike standing right, erecting trophy Kritt 118 (this coin); Newell 301 I had already become addicted to the point of poring over the catalog as soon as it arrived like a kid looking at a Christmas catalog, making a list and checking it a hundred times, then submitting my bids by email. I would also call right before close to see the current bids then perhaps make an increase if other lots were out of range or bid on other coins that were under estimate. It was fairly common to get coins for less than estimate back then.
Too late as usual. $165 +10%. You really got my attention because sale 47 was the one that caused me to visit CNG to preview lots and spend $1400 since it had the Bickford-Smith Severans. My book and PR sheet are more worn than Carthago's copy.
Coincidentally, I had also been meaning to e-mail CNG to ask about the price realized for a lot from this same auction. Thanks to @Heliodromus and @Carthago, I now no longer have to. This was the one I was looking for, that I purchased in Leu 9 this past October: I notice that it also didn't realize its estimate in CNG 47. For the record, 23 years later, with a reduced estimate of CHF 350, it hammered for CHF 700. Maybe estimates were indeed more realistic back then? I'm wondering if I flip through that section of the catalogue, I'll be able to spot where your $1400 went to.
