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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8289548, member: 26430&quot;]Did anyone notice the most impressive thing about the auction? </p><p><br /></p><p>That bid-caller was effortlessly switching between (at least) four languages, and oftentimes at least three of them in a single lot. (Not just in normal conversation, but during a high-intensity, high-volume activity with lots of stimuli competing for attention!)</p><p><br /></p><p>He was using English, German, French, and Italian. (I think Italian, but I wouldn&#039;t recognize the difference between Italian and Portuguese. This is during the Dr. W.R. &quot;Roma Universa&quot; collection of Roman Republican coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I started trying to film it on the computer using my cell phone (didn&#039;t have any kind of video capture prepared) to see if I could catch a clip.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got destroyed. I made one horrible mistake and didn&#039;t bid on the only coin that sold for much less than it had previously sold for...</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a little Thessalian bronze coin from the Morcom family and the Vlasto Collections (Kuenker failed to note the prior collections, else I&#039;m sure it would&#039;ve gone higher). I think it hammered at 140 EUR today, and hammered for USD $500 at <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=108073" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=108073" rel="nofollow">CNG 76 (12 Sep 2007), Lot 398</a> -- 15 years ago! I have no idea why I didn&#039;t click bid. I guess I didn&#039;t realize that would be my only chance. So sad now....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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