Anyone have any success Triton XXV?

Yesterday was a disaster! I had some nice Kushan AV Dinara on my hit list/ ended up loosing all three by a wide margin. Seemed two bidders in particlar where going ballistic and coins ended up going 10X estimates. Today, my target was a AV Solidus of Basiliscus and Marcus/ lost that too. Finally, I checked other coins of interest/ one a AV Unite of James I in CNG grade "EF"/ top proxy bid was $3250. I waited till the lot came up to my surprise, it went to final bid/ I laid down 3500 and ended up winning it

England/ House of Stuart
AV Unite ND/ Second Coinage (struck 1615/6) Tower Mint mm. "Tun"
James I of England/ VI of Scotland 1603-25
Crowned half leght armored bust/ holding Orb/ and Lis tipped Scepter
IACOBVS*D*G*MA*BRI*FRA*ET*HI*REX
Crowned Coat of Arms/ flanked by I - R
10.00g. 37mm. .916

North 2085 SCBC 2620

James I (VI) of Scotland always had a phobia of being stabbed to death/ and was prone to wear armor.
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I placed a serious bid by my standards and got thoroughly crushed.

 

Same for me. I had 3 bids in that were significantly higher than I've paid for a coin ever and decently higher than estimate and still got obliterated. It was a fruitless endeavor.

 

I guess there was no need to worry that having a "hybrid" auction instead of a fully live one would depress the prices!

 

I had no luck in TRITON, but that is not surprising as I did not bid in or watch it.
I did watch the The New York Sale and picked up my first RR denarius in a while.

Roman Republic, L. Livineius Regulus. Silver Denarius (4.27 g.), 42 BC. Rome.
Bare head of the praetor L. Livineius Regulus right.
Reverse: L • LIVINEIVS above, REGVLVS in exergue, curule chair between six fasces.
Choice Very Fine.
Crawford 494/28

 

There was a Knossos drachm which I liked. Placed a very significant bid on it (after much deliberation), and wasn't even close.

At the price it sold for, it should be the finest Knossos drachm to come on the market in recent times, but it isn't (not to say it isn't still a great example), but the price was way out of proportion.

I'll wait for NAC in May/June, seem to have more luck there.

 

A nice acquisition! Congratulations!

 

Such a cool coin. Just looking at it I felt like I just went back in time.

 

I noted when the Kushan section came up, mostly two bidders where at war with each other to win the lots at any cost.
One coin, that I had won few years back with Heritage, sold for six times what I paid in 2017(mine is better quality. The "DEMAND" for ancients is HOT and seems to be no sign of ever cooling down. The "World/ British" part of auction was not cheap either/ but at least average day collector has a chance to compete. On my computer the auction had to be "refreshed' every 10 mins or so.....never had this happen before.

 

Honestly surprised by some of the replies here, maybe I was just watching the wrong coins.

Put a handful of RICs on my watchlist but didn’t even bother bidding or watching live as I just knew they’d go for 2-3x estimate like always. And then… they didn’t. Some very nice Flavians especially barely made estimate. Maybe the obnoxious investors are backing away?

 

I won 2/10 coins that I placed bids on. I was the underbidder on 4 or 5 of the lots that I lost, and a few others were way out of my range. I thought prices for the Republican/early imperial were super aggressive.

 

2/10 is not bad. Which ones did you win?

 

Two Imperial AEs. Will post them when I have them in hand as I'm having them shipped.

 

I watched it....amazed at the prices. Too rich for my blood

 

5 bids, 0 success. I was fighting really hard for 3 of them, all with the same guy at the end, but had to give up when it went completely insane...

 

One coin



Hiberno-Norse penny
Viking Ireland, probably Dublin
Ca. 1035-1060
Phase III
Imitative of Aethelred II long cross type, with crude bust and blundered imitative legends.
Ex- Triton XXV, DCS collection, J Kern

 

I found the Stacks auction to be equally challenging and a lot of coins were bid up way beyond what I expected..

Personally I was close on one target and absolutely blown out (by 200%) on the other.

Do we have any winners here?

 

Nope! I got annihilated there too. I expected to lose on most but thought I would have a good chance at least winning 1. I was blown away on almost every single lot and there were at least 3 coins I put what I thought would be competitive bids on. The price explosion just continues to get more outrageous.

 

I did not try (Stack's) I did win two lots Spink Auction
I was leading on a Bretagne AV Cavalier d'or Francois I MS-64. Once my high bid ($4400) was eclisped, I let it go. Too many other goodies coming up.

 

I had good luck at the New York Sale with one win and a great deal on one unsold lot. I've already posted them a couple times today on different threads, but here goes again.

Won:

Papel States. Rome. Sixtus IV (1471-1484). Silver Grosso, undated. Rome Mint. First papal coinage with a portrait of the Pope on it. Bust in robe left.SIXTVS. IIII. PONT.MAX.VRBE.REST. Reverse; Arms surmounted by mitre and crossed keys, VTILITATI.PVBLICAE, weight 3.50g (Berman 451; Munt I;g80,14). Ex CNG 55, 9/2000, lot 1723, Peter Corcoran Collection.

Unsold:


Mantua. Frederick II Gonzaga (1519-1540). Bronze Off Strike or Medallic Scudo, undated. 1st Period. Bust left, cuirassed, leg: FEDERICVS II MAR V MANTVÆ. Reverse; St. Catherine of Alexandria standing facing, head left, holding palm branch in left hand and supporting wheel in right, 15.31g, 34 mm (Morosini 8; Magnaguti 160; Kress 90), partially drilled hole. Extremely rare. Choice Very Fine.
Ex CNG 61, 9/2002, lot 2451, Peter Corcoran Collection.
Ex CNG 55 9/2000 lot 1714
Ex Aretusa sale 4 (lugano 1966, lot 1052)