Anyone find a treasure in Münzen & Medaillen GmbH's book auction E-Auction 1? Many of the books sold at the minimum or were unsold. Some sold for well over estimate and the automated bid announcer could not keep up with the bids. The Three Graces and their Numismatic Mythology by STAAL, M. A. started at 30 E and hammered for 190 E on 8 bids. It sounded a bit like: One hundred One... One... One... One Hundred Ninety I picked up a book on the Naville Collection of scale weights in the Art and History Museum (Geneva). Pondera, a scale weight web site, lists 621 weights from the museum. The cover shows a neat 6 ounce commercial Byzantine weight. Pondera (uclouvain.be)
PS - there were 18 bids from the start of 20E to hammer. I think this a personal record for bids where I won an auction.
Congrats on the win! I threw in a lot of pre-bids and ended up with Arma et Nummi, a book on the RR collection in Warsaw and an old sale catalogue - happy with these ATB, Aidan.
Congratulations on your win! I really enjoyed this auction. It was the first time I participated in a books-only auction. I won seven books. Three introduction works on Greek coinage, my first ones. And one book i had been looking for, for quite a while: Hill's book on monuments on coins. Very pleased with my wins!
Wow! That price seems high. We know some coins are going high, but I wouldn't expect it of books. If someone wants a copy, contact me.
I think it is the same title. Maybe that vcoins example was the world's last retail copy (Amazon, ABE, and AddAll have none). Anyway, it seems auction fever infected at least two buyers.
