Does your local coin shop have ancients in stock? If so, they might make a more reasonable offer. If not, they'd just be wholesaling it elsewhere...
That's a lightning fast turnaround, even if they had picked it up. Maybe they consigned it, it didn't sell, and now they're reusing their...
I'll add to @IdesOfMarch01 's run of Hadrian sestertii with a recent purchase depicting the lighthouse at Alexandria, one of the wonders of the...
I'm sure he was great friends with S. Pozzi and contributed to those famous Canadian and Swiss collections ;-)
I largely agree, although one strategy that has paid off for me is pre-bidding exactly my max (only with one of the few remaining implicitly...
I'd have thought that these coins should be encouraging, rather than discouraging for the average collector. Sure, some are out of reach, but a...
Thanks! I do indeed have a handful of coins in both Nomos and NAC (the latter of which should be online in the next week or so). A collection is...
As usual, the reverse of this Perikles stater leaves something to be desired but the obverse is one of the nicest dies, and one of the first...
It's also not light! It's quite the tome, but a great resource.
Luster is hard to capture in a photograph but here are a few of my favorites in gold: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The final coin, the Domitian...
Coming back to this thread, I agree with this assessment as well: the scratches didn't look terrible in the original photo from the auction house...
Indeed, and at times, the Sheikh competed against himself... i.e. the three-quarter facing Pantikapaion stater where he mistakenly gave his bids...
Here's my example from the day of its founding: [ATTACH] "On 11 May 330 AD, after almost six years of transformation from the ancient city of...
I'd suggest not deleting but instead linking to the Wayback Machine view of a website which will likely be present (even if somewhat poorly...
I would have a comparably sized collection to today, certainly not exceeding 200 coins. The challenge is finding the coins for sale: even with...
They may have interpreted what NGC sees as smoothing just as cabinet friction on the highest points. Coins sliding around in trays can develop...
It was their back cover coin too, and the most expensive coin in the sale. My guess is they discovered it after the catalog was printed and made...
Nomos is indeed one of the good ones. Here are a couple of my favorite coins which came through Nomos auctions/fixed price lists: [ATTACH]...
The style, condition, and toning vastly outweigh the minor level of off-center in my eyes. Congratulations!
I'll summarize my thoughts with just: "Wow." Don't go into debt for coins or cars or handbags. If the car repairs will drain your savings, you...
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