Clio......why do you do this?

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  1. 4to2centBC

    4to2centBC Well-Known Member

    Yes, it does. But I was about to do the same to the person who had the $950 bid with 5 seconds left on the clock.

    Live by the sword, perish by the sword.

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    Clio has a longer sword. There, I said it.
     
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  3. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    LOL, it is not how long the Sword is, it is how skillfully you weild it!

    That is a cool "motion picture" you posted!

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    RR AR denarius 3.8g 18.0mm T Didius Rome 113-112 BCE Roma star ROMA mono - Two Gladiators whip Sword Sear 171 CRaw 294-1
     
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  4. 4to2centBC

    4to2centBC Well-Known Member

    When it comes to auctions, the longest sword always wins.

    yeah, neat little gif. found it on-line.
     
    4to2centBC, Sep 28, 2017
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    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    True, Bubba. Quite, quite true.

    I mistakenly took the position of making that comment for face-to-face negotiations. Auctions take the Human-factor out of that equation.
     
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  6. Barry Murphy

    Barry Murphy Well-Known Member

    Clio doesn't buy for a museum, he buys for himself. He is not a dealer.

    I got Clio'd 3 times yesterday. Oh well.

    Barry Murphy
     
    Barry Murphy, Sep 28, 2017
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  7. FitzNigel

    FitzNigel Medievalist

    Good to know - perhaps I am wrong in my suspicions as to Clio's identity...
     
    FitzNigel, Sep 28, 2017
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  8. David Atherton

    David Atherton Flavian Fanatic

    CNG, and to a lesser degree Nomos, seem to be Clio's haunts. Does anyone know the other auction sites he frequents?
     
    David Atherton, Sep 28, 2017
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  9. red_spork

    red_spork Triumvir monetalis

    He absolutely attacked the RR section on Roma once. I made it out with one little scrappy bronze. I think he bought the other 10 or 12 or so.
     
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  10. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    All this Clio discussion reminds me of the Star Trek Doomsday Machine...

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    They still defeated it... :)

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    RR C Hosidius C F Geta 68 BCE Diana bow quiver Boar Hound spear Sear 346 Craw 407-2
     
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  11. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    Posted in wrong thread. Sorry
     
    Sallent, Sep 28, 2017
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  12. Quant.Geek

    Quant.Geek Well-Known Member

    He is on most of the auction sites including NN and VAuctions. Lost several coins on both of those auction sites to Clio... :(
     
    Quant.Geek, Sep 28, 2017
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  13. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    Can you imagine when the Clio collection ever makes it to the marketplace? I have a feeling it would take years to sell all of it. This guy must have thousands of coins, all the way from average to high end.
     
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  14. Mikey Zee

    Mikey Zee Delenda Est Carthago

    Wow!! I feel your pain!

    Hmm, I think I was one of the early bidders but that went WAY over any maximum I started off with. Hopefully, CLIO has the Quadrigatus he wanted and he'll leave a few for the rest of us:(
     
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  15. David@PCC

    David@PCC allcoinage.com

    Is it possible that it is not even human...
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    Insatiable
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  16. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I don't think I've ever (knowingly) come up against Clio, nor had I ever heard of him until I started hanging out with you lot.

    Perhaps the stuff I buy is under his radar. Or maybe it's that I as a buyer generally prefer the fixed price/best offer format to auctions. Or that I only dabble in ancients as a relatively small part of my wider collection.

    I wonder what will happen in the future when Clio (and perhaps most of us) have passed on and his estate is sold. What effect will that have on the market, I wonder? I mean, it has to be a vast accumulation of some very high quality material. Are we talking about another Eliasberg, here?

    Edit - aha, I see @Sallent was thinking along similar lines.
     
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  17. Barry Murphy

    Barry Murphy Well-Known Member

    FitzNigel, I assume u thought Clio was Wayne Sayles. I've been asked that a number of times since Wayne was Clios cabinet.

    Clio bids everywhere. Sometimes he uses other people to bid for him so you might get clio'd and not know it.

    Concerning the quadrigatus, he probably already has 25 examples ( just a guess though) and I'm sure he will buy others.

    He collects just about everything, ancients, us colonials, Viking, medieval, modern, paper money etc.....you never know when you might get Clio'd.

    Barry Murphy
     
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  18. FitzNigel

    FitzNigel Medievalist

    Yep, that was what I was thinking
     
    FitzNigel, Sep 29, 2017
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  19. Cucumbor

    Cucumbor Well-Known Member

    Whoever they are, Clio must have a lot of fun at reading what we write and speculate :D

    Q
     
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  20. 4to2centBC

    4to2centBC Well-Known Member

    I used to have a friendly chat with the CEO of one of my former companies, usually when we shared an elevator or were standing at a bar at some event. A very personable, nice and very wealthy fellow. Small talk all the time, nothing more.

    Years later I discovered he donated this.

    http://news.coinupdate.com/michael-...coins-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-1625/

    I hadn't a clue. So, you never know who is behind the bidder paddle.
     
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  21. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I had this thought, too.

    Funny how low-key and unassuming the mighty leviathan types can be sometimes. But if you know you're a mighty leviathan, I suppose one feels less of a need to puff up one's ego and put on airs.
     
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