I get your point.:happy: Still, I'd happily trade my Apollo for the Rembrandt...
Interesting thread and enlightening links. Thanks! Some loose thoughts by someone who doesn't have an answer: ' -we only see coins from the dies...
In my experience coins often look different in hand from how they look in pictures. Often you have to know the dealer/auction house you're dealing...
Congratulations! Meanwhile, I'm still waiting...
until Prime Auction 5 (March 15th). That shipment still shows as "package not found" through track & trace (PostNL) Mail is in corona-coma...
Thanks to all for your input. Some very good tips. I was really hoping there would be some standard work on Magna Graecia, the one book you have...
This is actually the story I'm interested in. Why Biddr in particular? Is Numisbids not similarly affected? What about Sixbid? I know there's a...
So I have been collecting Ancients for about two years now. What started as an ephemeral fancy and a worn sestertius of Marcus Aurelius grew...
I bought a few times in their auction. If anything their shipping was unuaually fast, usually 2-3 days after confirmation of payment. A coin I won...
March 24th to Norway...Still waiting.
I have a shipment from Zeus equally stuck in transport. Another shipment from Artemide to be dispatched one of these days. I'm not too worried...
Yes! Finally a coin to join in! Here it is:[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Bruttium, the Brettii. Double unit. 214-203 BC. 13,56 gr. 26 mm Head of Ares,...
I have bought on several occasions from Artemide. Never had any concerns or misgivings. But then again I am not the world's most experienced...
Good question! I've been wondering about that myself. And making a banker's mark is one thing, but you also have to be able to examine the...
Thanks, Alegandron. I'll check it out :-) And thank you, dougsmit for your enlightning answer. The sacrificial and protective/prosecutorial angle...
Makes sense. Note that out of six buyers gave their 'thumb down' to the seller and say they never received the coin they won. Possibly the CW bid...
Makes sense. Thanks!
Do you recognise any of the countermarks, Alegandron I have to plead ignorance here... If you can attribute them that would be super. Exciting to...
I have this specimen, a very worm Achaemenid siglos. More an example of 'banker's rage': [ATTACH] I have often wondered what the point of more...
Live here, originally Dutch... but it's nice to meet a fellow collector from Norway :-) Greetings! I followed a few countermarked Greeks/Romans...
Separate names with a comma.
