Upcoming Gemini Auction--if only I were a millionaire.

@Carthago

Those are wonderful coins! I wish you the very best in realizing some great prices for those.

 

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All three are spectacular. I'm amazed that you'd part with them. In any case, best of luck... I hope they see a flurry of bids!

 

Thank you! Believe it or not, I upgraded all 3 last year.

 

If Gemini coins are too expensive, consider the upcoming vauctions coins. Vauctions have not been frequent recently, but there is one with many low estimates closing Friday, March 17.
http://www.vauctions.com/

 

I have to wear sunglasses at night just to look at some of your postings. Great job. Fun stuff. Good luck unloading your "dross" so you can upgrade your other cool coins!

 

you upgraded those?!




congratulations.








good luck at the auction, i hope you do well!

 

I also have a number of recently upgraded coins in the sale. It's been a productive year!

 

Our friend Volodya let me know through back channels that my coin follows another issue of Cassius by Lentulus Spinther, thus why it doesn't show on my particular lot since it would be redundant. This is a normal cataloguing convention that I overlooked on the dreaded online Adobe flash flip catalogue. I really only like looking at SixBid style auctions.

Sorry for the angry face. Here's a happy one!

 

Quite right. I really dislike the flash-flip format. Maybe they do it to prevent easy copying. The on-line Celator is in that irritating format which makes it hard to read.

https://community.vcoins.com/category/the-celator/

Does anyone know the real reason people use that format when other formats are so much better for the reader?

 

I thought that Julius Caesar denarius looked like yours. Did you really upgrade that one?

 

That's one I have not yet managed to upgrade but it's one I know I want to/will upgrade. It ended up being a case where it is more convenient to add that denarius in with my others, instead of waiting for an upgrade to be found and consigning a single coin to a different auction.

 

It's easy to post in a hurry, directly from a pdf or other document. The normal online catalogue will follow shortly.

 

I see a few things that are still affordable, plus its the first time I'm bidding on VAuctions. Hopefully I don't get outbid on most of my stuff (hint)

 

Is anyone here planning on attending the Gemini sale in person? It closes tomorrow online at http://www.geminiauction.com and I believe there's an extra charge for bidding live online (as with most sales).

 

As TIF pointed out, there are some great coins in this sale that will probably slip beneath the radar because of the number of bidders who would prefer to chase items that will draw large numbers of bids but only one winner. I saw a multiple coin lot that interested me with two coins quite possibly the best surviving of the type (and still G-VG) but I'm too shallow to chase them. I do remain curious how many of the low end lots will go unsold and whether they will turn up in other venues. This sale has some super rare but zero demand items in the unillustrated parts. It is certainly a sale with things too good for the likes of me and things I doubt will attract any action. I'm still too broke from Triton to even look.

 

Well, reading some comments....I dont expect to see any great bargains from one of the biggest auctions of the year. Could be, but who knows? But, keep in mind that Gemini is run with some old fashioned ideas dating back maybe 30 years or more. I'm not saying that is bad, but can equally be extremely good, honestly. Most multiple lots are not photographed. That was common in the old days (it was very expensive to shoot and print photos into catalogs, I can tell you from experience), but of course now it takes simply several minutes to set up, shoot, process and upload that photo. Honestly it doesn't take more than a few dollars to do this, but in the old days it was exponentially more. And thus some old school dealers hold to this concept. Its too cheap, so there wont be any photo, its too expensive and time consuming, the coins are too plebeian, so there wont be any photo. Those may be the lots where the bargains may be (but equally might not be, as there is no photo). That is the way of the 'old'.

I remember a few years back I bid in a XXXXXX auction (wont say who, I guess I dont want to make more enemies) prior to its opening, having entered my bids earlier. I think it was maybe one of the first years they ran the auction live on the internet. You could not only see the auctioneer but hear everything in the room (was held in conjunction with the New York International). When they got to the lots I bid on there was some confusion and the auction slightly halted. The comment was something like, book bid is, wait? What? $778? What is that? I dont understand. Why is it an odd amount? That doesn't make sense. Its not even within the bid amounts? There was some discussion.... let him have it, no, thats stupid he should not get it for being stupid, etc. Eventually I lost out to a room bid of $725. Why? Who knows really, but the auctioneer and I had a slight (but published) disagreement about certain aspects of the coin market WAY back in the early 1980's.

So, I lost. That's OK. As I always say, there have been many coins before, there will be many more after. Wait, did I lose track? Yea, I guess I really did. What were the questions? Heck, I dont know, but something prompted this memory. So, take it as you will. I have many more random thoughts!

 

Keen eye. btw Many went unsold.

 

If you are a little tech-savy, you can download The Celator as PDF files as the website is nothing more than an online PDF reader .

I don't like reading things from an online repository and hence try to download it locally for my personal use. Seen too many of these "repositories" hit the bitbucket...