1. Thank you @pprp for bringing this fake to our attention. 2. If the auction house does not withdraw the piece, it would be helpful if someone...
thanks for the correction!
The bride of quietness 2 CT colleagues 1. I hope you didn’t mind my previous post ‘The bride of quietness.’ I wanted it and the excerpt from...
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, [ATTACH] When old age shall this...
I have three experiences from well known auction houses where I have considered return 1. Low specific gravity and holes in the plating...
Although serving clients from a storefront might dwindle away in our hobby, entrepreneurs will still find ways to reach clients. Still with the...
Many thanks to CT colleagues for your comments. Like some have written, I believe the ‘scratches’ are deliberate cuts (or perhaps a sharp punch)...
I write to ask CT colleagues for their opinion of the auctioneer’s description of ‘scratches to portrait’ on this solidus of Anthemius. Here’s my...
At this week's Kunker sale I bid to 3x estimate on one coin, and 4x on another. In both instances I wasn't even close to being the purchaser. If...
… in addition to my post just now: Like many others I have coins that dealers attribute to old collections, a couple of which may go back a...
I’d like to get back to the main premise of his thread to ask a couple of questions. Firstly, if our coin is not photographed in an auction...
Buyers pay auction companies’ expenses in addition to a portion of consignor fees as mentioned in this thread and others. Consider as well that...
Still might be worth a month's pay for some.
Is anyone able to point me to an online resource that includes analyses on the fineness of the Magna Graecia incuse coinage? Specifically I am...
I don't know about the rest of the book, but the way they divided the legend around the illustration shown is wrong. It should be divided ... COS...
As @akeady mentioned, determining whether the coin is silver by a specific gravity test is a good idea. There are lots of examples showing how its...
I am happy for CT purchasers at the NAC auction who got what they wanted, really. For myself, I participated to 3x estimate. But when the coin I...
Here’s how I’ve summarized this situation for myself It seems that a person consistently behaves in a way that a seller finds unprofitable to the...
... following @Trebellianus 's comment, the number of my ancient coin reference books is down to about three bookshelves, but I have well over a...
In my collection database I’ve replaced ‘rarity’ with ‘frequency.’ Wherever possible I use the number of estimated dies instead of the...
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