Triton XX auction January 10 - 11

Just finished with their catalog , 500 + pages with eye candy

 

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Available online:

https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=3193

So, everyone, if you had $100,000 to bid on coins at this auction, which ones would you pursue, and what would your maximum bid be?

 

There are far too many I would lust after, but this would be my top choice:

 

It won't take $100,000, but there are certainly a handful of coins I intend to buy.

 

The aureii of Claudius, Pertinax, and Matidia. You certainly don't see these every day.

 

All the coins are stunning!

 

This frightens me a bit. I'll take that $100,000!!

 

Any of our budgets will only make a dent in the sale, so it's always a matter of priorities. I anticipate either spending quite a lot or very little, depending on how a few lots go in this ever-unpredictable market.

 

We have had this discussion before and I know members of this list disagree on the propriety of discussing sales in progress when some of our number may have their eyes on the coins in question. In this case, there are a couple coins I would not mind having but they are already over $100,000 so I'm out.

In all honesty, if someone were to be giving me $100,000 that I had to spend in this sale, I'd buy the 14 lots that make up the AK collection and as many of the large lots at the end of the sale as I could with my change. At my age now, I could stop shopping for coins altogether and spend my remaining time cataloging and studying these things that the big dogs don't even think are worthy of individual lotting. It is a sad state of affairs when coins that should sell for over a thousand individually get tossed out in a large lot. There are a few in this group. I will be interested in seeing who buys them.

 

I don't even want to look. Too much like empty pockets and looking in the window at Macy's.

 

I bought this beauty as an "unsold lot" # 183 Bru Sale/21/11/2012 for 3000E/ this coin is perfect FDC! John

 

to the other topic...if I had $100K in my pocket. I would go after this coin
Seleukid Empire AV Stater Andragoras usurper King of Parthia 245BC....sadly I have to budget my bid at $5000

 

Man, those are beautiful. Maybe in a decade or two . I did find a couple auctions that are within my price range though, so yay.

 

Each of the CNG-Triton large lots of hekati consist of coins of the same type, ensuring that dealers are the target audience. If they had put one of each type in each lot, they could have had collectors bid and I'll bet the total prices realized would be higher. I would bid on lots with fifteen different hektai, but I won't bid on any of the lots with fifteen of the same type in one lot.

Is there some reason dealers don't make it easy for collectors to buy large lots? For example, some only use one picture showing one side of the coins in the lot. Even an individual lot gets two pictures! Only the people at the auction can know what they are getting, so it is hard for internet-people to bid in an informed manner.

Even the lots of hektai show only one side of the coins. For a $3000 lot you'd think they would show the other side! But no. So why do major dealers do that?

 

I'm guessing time. It takes an enormous amount of time to put lots together for auction, and CNG's staff is quite small. It amazes me they put out as much as they do. Probably @Ardatirion burns the candle at both ends to get those catalogs out. At some point you have to just lump a bunch of stuff together, take a quick pic and move it out! That, or you've got a growing backlog.

 

I don't need the bling.

I like the history, however. Here's a nice piece from the auction (I won't be able to afford). I had to read about this usurper:



Alexander of Carthage. Usurper, AD 308-310. Æ Follis (21mm, 4.89 g, 6h). Carthago (Caerhage) mint. IMP ALEXANDER P F AVG, laureate head right / ROMAE AETERIIAE, Roma, holding globe in outstretched right hand and scepter in left, seated facing, head left within hexastyle temple façade; PK. RIC VI 70; Salama type VII, portrait style G. Near EF, brown surfaces, a few hard green deposits, minor roughness. Very rare.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitius_Alexander

Another usurper:




Martinian. Usurper, AD 324. Æ Follis (20mm, 3.01 g, 12h). Nicomedia mint, 2nd officina. D N M MARTINIANO P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CONS ERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, holding Victory on globe in right hand, eagle-tipped scepter in left; to left, eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in its beak; to right, bound captive kneeling right; X/IIΓ//SMNB. RIC VII 46; cf. Hunter 1 (different obv. legend). VF, green patina, cleaning scratches, some gray deposits, minor roughness. Very rare.


From the KD Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 80 (20 October 2014), lot 254.

During his war with Constantine, Licinius appointed his magister officiorum, Martinian, as his co-emperor. The new Augustus was then deployed to Lampsacus to oppose Constantine's army as it crossed the Hellespont. After his defeat, Martinian was imprisoned in Cappadocia, where he was later executed on Constantine's orders. During his brief reign, Martinian struck coinage at two mints, Cyzicus and Nicomedia.

And this one:



Procopius. Usurper, AD 365-366. AR Siliqua (19mm, 2.27 g, 6h). Constantinople mint, 2nd officina. D N PROCO PIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VOT/V in two lines within wreath; C•B. RIC IX 13e.2; RSC 14†c. Near EF, toned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopius_(usurper)


Simply great pieces of history and works of art, these coins.

 

That Persian tet is gorgeous, but I have a hard enough time tracking down the siglos that work for me.

 

Honestly if I had that kinda cash there are better things to do with it... I'd invest in a home I need or atleast buy my condo

From the hobby center and think tank of MTS.LLC

 

Maybe someone here could buy a lot and we could split it up + buy a coin each
anyone?

 

I only breezed through it. I'm like Bing, but I'm not looking into a Macys anytime soon either.
Right now I'm not looking past SNG's current. That can change tomarrow.