Featured Akragas Tetradrachm.....Not Quite the Holy Grail of Ancients but.....

Well at least I'm in good company.

For what it's worth, I think you will do OK on the Akragas. Maybe not if you flip it right away, but if you hold for a while. Seems like the very best material is leaving the rest of the coin market in the dust, and that Akragas deserves to be counted among the very best in my opinion.

 

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I put in a decent bid on that one too but bidding on it became a bit frenzied so I stopped watching it. Ultimately it went for a lot more than I expected.

It was a very mixed auction I thought. Some coins achieved very high prices but others sold at quite a bit less than I expected.

 

I think so too. I would like to enjoy owning it and don’t intend selling it for a while.......unless someone from Sicily “makes me an offer I cannot refuse “

 

A similar grade sold for $8,400 early in 2019. OK the toning is not the same and some scratches are visible but essentially it is the same coin AU* 5 and 5....I know I know its an ancient but to pay such a huge premium for a bit of toning??? Hell just crack it out of its coffin and it will tone in a couple of years

 

It isn't valuable for the toning - the value is the obverse's style which is unusually nice.

 

It does have a lot of very nice detail on the reverse

 

This is where ancient and modern coins differ. Same grade =/= same coin.

 

1934 Wealth Crown, Congratulations on your Akragas Tet . I was eye-balling that coin for some time too . Be thankful you were able to score a Tet of that type since a nice looking example of a Dekadrachm of that type, like the one pictured below, would probably set you back 500 K .



One ancient coin in the G.C. offering that really impressed me was the Gorgonian Stater pictured below. I bid 8 times for that coin but ended up getting steamrolled. It finally sold for $2,643.75

 

Wow...eyewatering values. Is that your coin......if so, I'm envious

 

I bid up to $1,800.00 & felt confident I'd get it, but it wasn't in the cards .

 

500K unfortunately wouldn't even get to the open - this coin last sold a few years ago at NAC for 2.3M hammer.

 

I have met several members of the Early American Copper club.

These collectors get excited about die pairs.

For them, it might be a very big deal to collect another 1794 large cent, from dies they already have examples of, if they don't have another example of the pair of dies together on the same coin.

 

@AncientJoe I really would really like to hear your opinion on the Ptolomey II Octodrachm Sir. I am in awe of your detailed knowledge and expertise on ancients and would love to have some insight on this coin which I find very fascinating because of the 4 royal portraits.

 

It's a popular but fairly common type, especially in recent years (there have been many gold octodrachms on the market as of late). There have been ~200 sold publicly in the last handful of years, usually in decent condition so it isn't a type that one needs to rush out and buy.

There is a tetradrachm of the type at half the weight which can flesh out a set if you're looking to collect a Ptolemaic typeset. Some are prohibitively expensive/rare but the basic set can be completed relatively easily (Ptolemy I Soter pentadrachm, Arsinoe II Philadelphus, Ptolemy II Philadelphus [octodrachm + tetradrachm] Ptolemy III Euergetes, with bonus points for Berenike or any other denominations).

 

Thanks @AncientJoe