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CHEERS everybody,

nice winner and losers @David Atherton what a great specimen would belong in your great collection, there is one out there for you some day

 

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No @TIF, you're power is never out! Oh, did you mean electrical power? OK then, sorry!

 

I wrote a post just now but hadn't signed in so I think it has disappeared. If I get two posts saying about the same thing that is why.
I spent a few days agonizing how high to bid on a few Alexandria drachms from Dattari collection. Finally put in my bids -- after all they were starting so low for my favorites (especially the centaur biga) that I thought - wow! I have a chance. Then I got outbid quickly but raised my bid quite high for me ( I do have a son to put through college and heating bills get quite high up north) but addicted as I am to this hobby I went for it and then felt kind of sick wondering if I might actually get the coin -- there are so many better pedestrian uses I have for that money -- don't tell the wife. The coins pretty much just get hidden in a safe deposit box anyway. Well the agonizing was all for nothing. I do believe there are at least two billionaires out there who like the same coins I do and will bid far up beyond heaven to get them and I haven't a ghost of a chance. The centaur coin went for over 1,500 pounds. I do like looking at the pictures however.

 

Yeah, sometimes I'll take a coin, say a quarter for example, and rub it between my fingers while looking at a picture of a coin I can't obtain....it gives me a euphoric feeling of....wishing I had the coin in the picture!

 

Whats a Naville. And did i win

 

Thanks, pSteve

My electrical power is on again but after a particularly rough day I came home to an island-wide outage for my ISP with no ETA for a fix

Seems like it’s always something these days. At least I have a whiff of cell signal at the moment.

 

Thanks Eric. It actually is the second example to slip through my fingers. Third time's a charm, right?

 

yes Sir

 

Bunches of Navilles here. Here is one in the prior auction to the OP auction:


The Carthaginians in Sicily and North Africa, Uncertain Sicilian mint Fraction IV cent., AR 9.5mm., 0.65g. Palm tree. Rev. Head of horse r. SNG Copenhagen (Africa) 74. Jenkins, Punic, Part 2, p. 31 and pl. 6, C.

Rare. Nice old cabinet tone, Good Very Fine.

From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

 

Here are a few of mine from the last three. Each have their flaws (you could call the first Sulla's nightmare) but I like a little something about each: the faceless Taras redeemed by the hippo's details, the bumpy remnants on the turtle's back, and being able to make out Hercules the muse leader doing his best Jimmy Page impression.