Suppose you won this coin at auction in January 2017 for $42,000 including all fees: [ATTACH] Here's the coin's description: Elagabalus. AD...
[ATTACH] This coin's condition was graded "good VF." My personal grade is "good VF/VF" -- I grade the reverse a bit lower than the auction...
I'll post the answer, with some personal observations and a new poll, tomorrow AM.
Couldn't resist this... The coin below sold at the January 2017 Triton XX auction for $5,950 including buyer's premium: [ATTACH] It was...
To be charitable, this coin is so obviously not genuine that I don't think it was intended to be deceptive. It was probably created to be a...
This is why I suggest taking the top coins from the collection -- maybe it's 10 coins, maybe it's 100 coins -- and considering auctions or...
Let me preface this by saying that I personally haven't sold my or another person's collection, but I've observed collections being sold (mostly...
It's easy to have the chain and attachment removed without any trace that these parts previously existed. I have such a coin myself, with a...
The gold trim appears to be a bezel for a piece of jewelry. At some point, this was probably a necklace and subsequently the chain and attachment...
Your wit and insight is widely missed -- hope you get Internet service back soon.
This is the essence of being an ancient coin dealer about which I'm most curious. While you can't escape the business reality of needing to turn...
This is interesting, but makes me curious about whether you'd still be a dealer if you weren't a two-income family. Would you? Retail operations...
For the major auction sites (Heritage, CNG, NAC, etc.) that also have a retail dealer operation, this is clearly the answer. Most of these...
Not only one of the most beautiful of this type, but also an incredible bargain.
FYI, "clear" means pictures that are in focus (not blurred) -- not just a picture that shows the complete coin. Also, it's most important to post...
Something about the obverse of this coin bothers me, and I would ask someone with real expertise (which I don't have) to comment on this. The...
Compare the rendering of Roma's chin and lips on the OP coin with the 79 examples listed in Severus Alexander's research on ACSEARCH....
My perspective on this common question -- "What is this ancient coin worth" -- continues to be different from Doug's in most (but not all)...
The thing is, maybe the coin didn't really sell for the $3000 hammer price -- maybe the consignor set a reserve, and while $3000 was the highest...
I suppose this would depend on your definition of "dealer" and "auctioneer." In my reply above, I define an auctioneer as one who is listed on...
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