Featured In Appreciation of Large Lots - Not just crusty LRBs

I really regret that I didn't spend enough time on this DNW auction to focus my bids on some of the large lots. The Richard Plant provenance is a great one, and he clearly accumulated a very interesting collection over his decades of collecting. One of the small Greek lots had an incredibly rare coin that I really wanted, but in trying to bid live rather than pre-sale, I was thwarted by either a bad internet connection or DNW's live bidding portal. The lot hammered for about half what I was willing to bid.

Anyway, congrats on those wins!

 

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Yeah, sometimes the auctions with too many great group lots are harder, because you don't want to overspend on one lot early, but they all end up going that high. Leu being one that comes to mind. Those kind of auctions attract ALL large group bidders, from collectors to dealers needing stock.

 

Indeed I did

Finally had a chance to image them...

Valentinian III, uncertain type with victory, Rome mint
Obv: DN VALENTINIANO, bust right
Rev: Victory standing left, legend unintelligible
These dative types I believe were made toward the end of his reign, unlike the bulk of his coinage minted in the 420s and 30s



Libius Severus AE4 nummus / Monogram of Ricimer
An emperor I had given up hope of ever owning!


And a second one to boot!


Basiliscus AE4 nummus
Obv: Degenerate legend like DN BASILSCVS
Rev: Monogram of Basiliscus, CON


Vandals, Thrasamund AE nummus
Obv: DN R C (TRAS) (Dominus Noster Rex Carthago Thrasamund?)
Rev: Highly stylized victory standing left


Vandals, 4 nummi, maybe Thrasamund?
Obv: Bust left with palm, no legend
Rev: И / IIII
Possibly contemporary copy, if it is possible to have a barbarous coin of a barbarous coin?

Ostrogoths, Theoderic?
AE nummus
Obv worn off / Monogram


This was NOT a cheap lot, but IMO the Basiliscus and first Libius Severus alone are worth the price I paid for the whole thing.

 

What an amazing lot, congrats!!!

My Libius Severus/Ricimer (which cost me 160 GBP):

 

Bumping again - super stoked to get two of the three large lots from today's Roma auction that I was after - see if you see what I saw

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Fun to know that there are still solid deals to be had!

 

Dude! You rock. I see Galerius Antoninus and Didius Julianus. The other coins are none to shabby either. Mind if I ask what the hammers were?

 

I have been buying some, but the European auctions are peeving me off. The last two Swiss auctions waited a full 4 weeks after wire payment to send me shipment tracking. Seriously, a month AFTER I paid is the soonest you can put a package in the mail?

 

Woah, fantastic buys! Nice job spotting those rarities

 

@Severus Alexander £440 for the lot including the Galerius Antoninus (IMO, it would be worth nearly that much -without- the Galerius Antoninus, between all those Neros, the Vitellius, and the Germanicus restitution).

£460 for the lot including the Didius Julianus - it'll be hard parting with some of the coins in that lot!

I am the world's worst coin flipper. I buy lots with the best intentions of re-selling them to get closer to some other big-ticket coin, then I have then in hand and suddenly it's all

 

Both excellent deals, I agree - especially the second one IMO. I hope you'll show us the reverses after they arrive!

That's how it's supposed to work!

 

Flipping? But then, you wouldn't have the coins. I don't understand.

Coins to me are a lifetime commitment. I buy them..........end of story. They stay with me until God separates me from them. Then they will be my family's to worry about.

 

Congratulations. This is the first Galerius Antoninus I see.

 

Aah, so YOU'RE the one who outbid me.

Glad to know that they are going to a good home.

 

Whoops

Which one were you after, or was it both?

 

Another surprise win from Auctiones



Hammered for about half of my max bid - people must have been sleeping on this one because I expected to get blown outta the water. Works out to I think $12-13 per coin. Top left I'm 95% sure is a Cleopatra VII AE (80?) Drachmae, and I think bottom left might be as well (or maybe Livia?)

 

Both. Along with about 20 other lots.

 

Hi @Finn235,

Sure looks like both.

- Broucheion

 

Any success? I was also after the one with the Vabalathus as Augustus and the one with the Johannes - tapped out on the first and missed the second because I was on a work call.

 

There was a lot with Vabalathus as Augustus? I must have missed that lol. Do you have a link?

 

@Harry G
https://www.romanumismatics.com/240-lot-2989-lot-of-11-greek-and-roman-ar-and-a-coins



Bottom left of center. For £380 final price of the lot would have been over $600 - I couldn't ID that big central provincial in time, but I wagered the rest of the lot probably would have sold for about $250-300 - just not worth it for the Vaballathus, IMO.