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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2960449, member: 56859&quot;]Sorry about your luck today but more auctions are on the way <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I shouldn&#039;t have bid on anything but couldn&#039;t resist the drool-worthy Staffieri collection of Roman Egyptian coins.&nbsp; I wanted them all.&nbsp; So many interesting and rarely offered types!&nbsp; The catalog is keeper and will be good reference in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>As usual, CNG was very unthoughtful and scheduled their auction to take place while I was working.&nbsp; The nerve!!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I had to prebid and I hate <i>hate</i> <b>hate</b> prebidding.&nbsp; I bid on four coins shortly before the end of prebidding last night; was immediately outbid on one.&nbsp; The other three stood, which was potentially bad since I shouldn&#039;t be spending money on one coin, much less three.&nbsp; If I&#039;d won them all it would have been bad. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately my top pick stood without contest during the live bidding and I lost the other two, so that worked out really well!&nbsp; I now have a new Roman Egyptian coin with cool pedigree-- and they forgot to mention or didn&#039;t notice that it is also illustrated in Emmett <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; That&#039;s particularly notable because Emmett isn&#039;t chock full of plates.&nbsp; Only a smattering of interesting types are shown, scattered about the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not going to show it until it is in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Relative to most of CNG&#039;s auctions, the prices realized for the Staffieri section were very tame compared to the estimate, with the average hammer being only 18% above estimate.&nbsp; The estimates did seem rather optimistic though.&nbsp; Only 2 of the 273 lots were unsold.&nbsp; It looks like the Greek section saw tremendous action though.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are interested in such data, here&#039;s a quickie spreadsheet of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BreL1qrgru0aUlH8wFU_IEWMOKLoiDcX1Z1sNsO3UW8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BreL1qrgru0aUlH8wFU_IEWMOKLoiDcX1Z1sNsO3UW8/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">results for the Staffieri Collection</a>, with percentage variance from estimate.&nbsp; Note that the official results have not yet been published but the hammers were noted when the auction was live.&nbsp; The least expensive lot realized $130 (a Claudius II tet) and the most expensive was an Antinous drachm ($47,500).</p><p><br /></p><p>(edited: I fixed the spreadsheet link-- no approval or sign-in required)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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