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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3410997, member: 56859&quot;]I had some success in this Künker auction.&nbsp; The results are still shown as preliminary and based on that I&#039;m certain I won one and lost one.&nbsp; A third bid in play is a probable win but it hammered for 2 EUR less than my max and until I ascertain that no one else submitted the same max at an earlier date, and that Künker accepts off-increment bids, I&#039;m not counting it as mine.&nbsp; Fingers are crossed though&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>The lost coin is now twice lost.&nbsp; I failed to acquire it in a Pecunem auction in 2013 and once again my bid was too weak <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Isn&#039;t this the most wonderfully bizarre representation of Herakles ever?!&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a few even more stylistically degraded version but those versions were too far gone to be fun.&nbsp; This one though.... Alien Ant?&nbsp; Mantis Man?&nbsp; A snow-skiing alien ant-mantis man?&nbsp; Dionysos looks quite inbred as well.&nbsp; I&#039;ve kept an eye out for one like it since losing the coin in 2013 and was excited to see it appear in this auction.&nbsp; Too bad I lost <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/kunker/318/image00130.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><span style="color: #660066">THASOS-IMITATION. The imitations. AR tetradrachm, 1st century BC Chr .; 16.63 g. Dionysus head with ivy wreath r., Clearly stylized // Herakles standing in front with one club in each hand, two &quot;feelers&quot; on the head; The legend is resolved into a three-row point chain and no longer angular but circular. Auction Fritz Rudolf Künker 236, Osnabrück 2013, No. 3 (stamp equivalent); Dembsky -; Göbl, Eastern Celts -; Kostial -; Lukanc -; Coll. Flesche -. </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">Of great rarity. Tint, almost excellent </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">Copy of the auction Gitbud &amp; Naumann 8, Munich 2013, No. 14. </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">The Herakles on the present piece looks like an alien with a head antenna.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin was a win... but not for me even though I bid on it.&nbsp; A friend who isn&#039;t really a collector expresses interest from time to time.&nbsp; Several years ago he asked if any ancient coins depict African people (African as in the negroid phenotype).&nbsp; There are a few types and I got one for him, a teensy billion fractional from Lesbos.&nbsp; The one he really wanted was the Etrurian bronze with head of African man obverse and elephant reverse.&nbsp; I showed him all examples in archives and there was one which was markedly better than the rest and he really wanted <b>that</b> coin.&nbsp; Well, <i>that</i> coin appeared in this auction.&nbsp; I mentioned it the night before the auction and we reviewed its prior sales prices and comps.&nbsp; Knowing Künker often sees very aggressive bidding and that this coin is rare, I advised him to bid a very high number.&nbsp; The hammer was high but considerably lower than his max.&nbsp; He will reimburse me for the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/kunker/318/image00183.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><span style="color: #660066">ETRURIA. UNKNOWN COIN. Æs, 3rd century BC Chr .; 5.34 g. Head of a black African r .//Elephant stands for r. Rutter, Historia Numorum 69; Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage -; Vecchi, The Coinage of the Rasna -. </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">RR Black patina, slightly corroded, good very fine. Auctioneer of </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">the auction Triton XVII, New York 2014, No. 1; the collection Dr. Hagen Tronnier, Auction Fritz </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">Rudolf Künker 94, Osnabrück 2004, No. 3; the auction Triton V, New York 2002, no. 2; The auction Leu Numismatics 74, Zurich 1998, No. 16 and the auction Sternberg XIV, Zurich 1984, No. 25. </span></p><p><span style="color: #660066">Roberto Russo considered an allocation to the Mint Arretium possible (see Ludwig 22).</span></p><p><br /></p><p>The third coin I won&#039;t show until I have it in hand-- if I actually won it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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