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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4272022, member: 57495&quot;]I received this e-mail from Nomos in Switzerland this morning:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>Nomos Auction 20 Postponed Until Further Notice</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Dear Friends:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>As should be obvious to everyone, the present Coronavirus situation has changed so many things around the world. This includes, of course, even minor events, like the timing of coin auctions. As you would expect, we have had to cancel our proposed Auction 20, which we intended to have on 3 May. Our manuscript was finished, the photographs were taken, and the layout was done, but, very luckily, it had not gone to the printer. Right now, we cannot tell you when our auction will take place, perhaps in June, but as soon as circumstances permit, we will let you know the new date of our sale, put it online, and have the catalogue printed and sent off to you. What has happened is something that no one could have ever planned for, nor could anyone now alive have witnessed anything similar, or envisioned it outside of a movie or a novel. But the coins you collect, we trade in and provide, and all of us study, enjoy and learn from, well, some of them certainly went through events like this: Athenian tetradrachms were there when the plague ravaged Athens at the start of the Peloponnesian War, killing Pericles himself in 429 BC; gold solidi of Anastasius I, Justin I and Justinian I were there during the great plague that occurred in 541-542; and, of course, all sorts of late Byzantine and Medieval issues were being struck at the time of the Black Plague, or the Black Death, which wiped out a significant number of the Old World’s population, devastating Europe from 1347, when it arrived in Constantinople and Sicily on Genoese ships that sailed from Kaffa in the Crimea,&nbsp; to 1351/1353 when it began to subside. For now, all we can do is follow the rules and advice of the medical experts who know far more than we do, stay at home, and enjoy our coins, since so many of them have seen it all before, and are still here to tell us about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>We will keep in touch, and in the coming weeks, send you information, which we hope you will enjoy and find interesting, about some of the coins that will be coming up in Nomos 20. So keep safe, and keep healthy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>****************************************************************************</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours,</p><p><br /></p><p>Nomos AG&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve received e-mails from other auction houses indicating that they, like CNG, will be continuing their auctions.&nbsp; Each business makes its own decisions, but having myself consigned a group of coins to Nomos (I sent them off in the first week of Feb, when the world was a slightly different place), I&#039;m glad they&#039;ve decided to take this route.&nbsp; Of course, having my consignment placed in limbo is not ideal either, but in context of what&#039;s going on outside of Coinland, I can&#039;t say that this is at the top of my mind right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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