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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3660069, member: 98035"]I agree, most wouldn't make the cut for an individual listing, but I've sold a lesser Marius of that type for about $180. Only about three of these are upgrades for me; the rest I bought to flip. Average was $16 per coin after BP - only the Gallienus, Salonina, Divo Caro, and Diocletian are likely to miss that mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=79368]@Barry Murphy[/USER], I think $1000 is way too high for the lot, but I agree - I feel sorry for the consignor on this one. CNG apparently has a policy of photographing lots by dumping a random handful of coins out and snapping the photo without even arranging them. Had they taken a carefully arranged photo of the coins like I did, bidding probably would have hit $500-600 rather than tapering off at $200.</p><p><br /></p><p>This isn't the first time, either. While some CNG lots do of course go far over their "ebay value", their policy of never photographing multiple coin lots properly does them much more harm than good.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3660069, member: 98035"]I agree, most wouldn't make the cut for an individual listing, but I've sold a lesser Marius of that type for about $180. Only about three of these are upgrades for me; the rest I bought to flip. Average was $16 per coin after BP - only the Gallienus, Salonina, Divo Caro, and Diocletian are likely to miss that mark. [USER=79368]@Barry Murphy[/USER], I think $1000 is way too high for the lot, but I agree - I feel sorry for the consignor on this one. CNG apparently has a policy of photographing lots by dumping a random handful of coins out and snapping the photo without even arranging them. Had they taken a carefully arranged photo of the coins like I did, bidding probably would have hit $500-600 rather than tapering off at $200. This isn't the first time, either. While some CNG lots do of course go far over their "ebay value", their policy of never photographing multiple coin lots properly does them much more harm than good.[/QUOTE]
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