Damn I told them already that packing the coins in jewelry like boxes may seem nice but anyone in the mail circuit handling the envelop will think...
It's great you got a second chance and managed to get the gortyna! It's a very interesting coin. Did you try to find which is the undertype? It...
If it makes you feel any better, I was the second underbidder for lot 17 which sold 5 times the starting price and the underbidder for 195. Both...
Very nice details, you don't see this often in this type! I don't think you can upload a video here its 30mb or more. Damn, I didn't even...
The hair above the eye are not clearly wavy; otherwise it could have been a IV. So V.A is more probable. If you are looking for an IV, it's not a...
I don't want to discourage you from bidding but take a good look at the photos and bid accordingly. Almost all owl tets have been harshly cleaned...
This is the reason Clio bids at 3s before closure. Frankly I don't get why people bother to bid days before closure for auctions with a fixed...
I am saying that the word has a bad meaning and it shouldn't have been used. If the collector wanted to call himself a friend of the Greeks, he...
Graeculus and Poenulus were used by the Romans to ridicule/mock the 2 nations they enslaved. Greaculus=the little Greek was not used to refer to a...
I think the vast majority of bidders lost to the telephone bidder and 1 or 2 online bidder handles. I only bid for 5 coins out of which I was the...
Advisors have advised, collectors had their day dreams, the hammer fell today and most of the coins went to the 2 persons who pay what is needed...
No no it's not lifetime! It's Kassander and struck in Pella
BTW I also have only one example and it's not lifetime either... Maybe one day I get the Memphis one with the rose. [ATTACH]
Reading your first sentence "While going through a box of ancients last night, I came across an old purchase." I was anticipating to see a 5$...
It could be Price 2949 like this one https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4970941
Up to the point where another poster intervened to defend his own advisor for reasons I cannot know, my only points where: auctions turned into...
He is seconding the first post in this thread by AJ. I don't need to repeat it here.
I hope you understand that by consistently using language like "misconception" , "not accurate", "investor" you are not discrediting my opinion....
So if you trust the auctioneers and their photos and descriptions why do you pay an expert for extra checking of what I referred to as hidden...
So let me understand. You pay an advisor x% of the hammer of the coins he examined for you only if you are are successful? Isn't it then in his...
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