The coin has been repaired - the banker's mark has been filled in. Here's another photo from another venue... [ATTACH]
This appears in a current auction listing without any note of the repair. [ATTACH] The same coin from an earlier passage in a different sale....
I am missing a scratch on Hermes's cheek in the cover piece from Ainos. Here's the photo from the prior passage. [ATTACH]
This is currently listed in an auction, beware that's not a real coin but a Caprara forgery. I am not sure if gold coins from Paros even exist ??!...
Some targets I abandoned early, for some I could not even place a bid as I was pressing the bid button but my bids were already outdated. For the...
Look like a Seleukid bronze, possibly Alexander Zabinas, so it reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
I was just informed that the archeologist Dr Ioannis Touratsoglou passed at the age of 80. I am sure everyone collecting Antigonids is familiar...
IMHO the most horrid restoration in history are the ruins of Knossos. Evans, bought the land from the local government of Crete after the...
Auction houses have private insurances that cover their posting around the globe even for items in the 6 digit chunk. I doubt your son could make...
My only octopus on a coin is a sixth nomos from kroton. A spontaneous last minute bid that was surprisingly successful...Reportedly from Hirsch...
If you don't react you actually encourage them to continue tooling coins and fooling collectors.
Could you please let us know if this consignor is a dealer/auctioneer?
The coin of the OP is clearly Buttrey Type M. It's one of the few cases we can be sure it's an Egyptian imitation because the dies are in...
That's something, but as far as I read, this didn't go to court and the provenances were quite new and in any case not pre-70. One of the coins...
I may I please ask if it ever happened to you (or you aware of a case) where a coin was blocked in the customs (or the export was not approved)...
I got one, about a year after the initial submission they found a match to an old catalog. They missed some provenances out of my submissions....
I hope the reason was that they updated their photo database in between your 2 submissions otherwise this is quite worrisome. I assume their...
This shows coin collectors are a pretty small community. I would assume than less than 1000 persons are collecting Greek coins. I would also...
I still don't understand why should bidder 1 get the coin at 8500 when he bid 9000 (at least) and bidder 2 bid 8500 after bidder 1 placed the 9000...
From what I can see bidder 2 placed a max bid at 8500 when bidder 1 was already winning bidder 3 with 6500. Bidder 1 had a max bid of 9000 or even...
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