Each participant can bid on as few as just one coin, or as many as he/she likes. It's my guess that bidding on fewer, higher-priced coins will...
It's not as complicated as it seems -- the goal is to see if you can spend fantasy funds to win coins that you'd like to have in your collection....
OK, a few final items before everything is finalized and the fantasy game is started. (1) Should we add the Kunker auction? I support doing...
This is effectively what the second term in the AES calculation does. It divides the winning bids by the total amount bid (assuming every...
It's still not clear how this gives you a bidding advantage, unless you know the reserve prices on the coins and how strongly the bidding is...
Also not true. You get maximum points for bidding exactly the final hammer price for a coin. You get some points for over-bidding but...
Another pitfall in bidding on fewer but higher-priced coins is that many times they go for multiples of their estimates, and you'll blow your...
Not true at all. You bid $100K on one coin that ends up going for $1,000, and your AES is 1%. AES = (1/1) * ($1,000/$100,000) = 1% You bid...
Essentially, yes, that's the nature of this fantasy game. But it involves research into prior coin prices, knowledge about coins and the market,...
I have to admit that I think of EBay as the following analogy: if you're drafting players in a fantasy football game, it's like drafting college...
I excluded EBay since it's not a limited-time auction like the others. There's no beginning and end to EBay's auctions and since the fantasy...
With the advent of American football season upon us, football fans are forming fantasy leagues and drafting players for the upcoming season. I...
10 of 12 Caesars sestertii, missing Tiberius and Titus: [ATTACH]
12 Caesars denarii (silver): [ATTACH] From left to right, top to bottom: - Julius Caesar, Octavian/Augustus Caesar, Tiberius - Caligula,...
Doug will be a better authority on figuring this out. My suggestions would be (1) verify that the obverse and reverse legends are correct; (2)...
My opinion only, but the style of the obverse portrait doesn't look like a Rome mint. Here are my Rome mints (as, sestertius, denarius, aureus):...
I strongly subscribe to this point of view. Once a coin crosses the (admittedly somewhat fuzzy) line of "smoothing" into "tooling," I begin to...
One of the tradeoffs that arises for any collector of ancients is illustrated in this thread: Do you buy a coin with a good quality obverse...
[ATTACH] The coin is more impressive in hand. The lack of detail in the obverse wreath is due to a weak strike on the high points, but the...
Well, if you want to go back about two millennia, here's one that might fit the bill: [ATTACH] NERO AE Sestertius (26.56 g.) Lugdunum circa 65...
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