While there are a lot of interesting viewpoints and insights in this thread, it appears to be fundamentally about "overpaying" for ancient coins...
I was the underbidder on a Caligula sestertius at Monday's auction, although apparently the winner was bidding so strongly that it's unlikely a...
Posting the obverse of this coin has been very helpful and enlightening: [ATTACH] When I examine this image closely, the two questions that pop...
I agree with this observation. All of the areas I've circled in the image below would make me feel uncomfortable with this coin. Too many of the...
So, uh, that would place this coin in the "$12,000 and up" category? ;-)
Thanks for posting this -- very thoughtful.
There is no 1401d, as far as I can find. There are eight different "head" subcategories: A, A1, A2, A3, A4, B1, C2, and D2. None of these is...
In my copy of RIC II.3, your coin definitely is 1401 and not 1404 as illustrated in the plates.
Haha! Thanks for the laugh! My guess is that you ran into a lot of conspiracy theorists during your legal career.
Who believes this? On what basis is this belief supported? It is believed that ancient aliens created this coin to fool modern collectors...
Thanks everyone for the kind comments and especially for the coins posted from your collections that fit this thread. I thoroughly enjoyed every...
The two major factors that drew me to collect ancient coins are their history and artistry. The Twelve Caesars period is, for me, the most...
I admit to being more than a little surprised that his Julius Caesar aureus is the A.Hirtius type, not the posthumous coin struck by Octavian with...
Since the payment to the expert is per-piece, surely it would make more sense for Leu to employ four separate experts -- one each in these coin...
That's a fabulous travel series coin! If my inflation table is correct from 1980, you also got more than a good bargain too!
Here's another perspective on investments, albeit for a somewhat shorter time period. The compounded annual return on the S&P 500 (including...
Let's assume that a "live bid" is defined as a bid placed directly by a bidder on a specific coin at a specific time while the auction is still...
But if this were correct, then the website would not even show the 605 CHF bid as the currently highest bid since there's no point. Instead, the...
If the increment was 50 CHF per bid, why would either the algorithm or auctioneer allow a bid of 650 CHF (which is only 45 CHF higher than the...
I would argue that it's fairer to non-live bidders for an auction to restrict bids to be only exact increments. E.g., if the increments are 50...
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