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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2852174, member: 19463"]Exactly right. I have half a dozen coins for which there are online records showing prices double or more what I paid. I wish I had noted them as I discovered them. It would make a good thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything is possible if you accept the premise that CNG does not know the term 'AU' (Apparently Unique).</p><p><b>CNG 106, Lot: 451.</b> Estimate $1000.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. </b>5th century BC. AR Drachm or Hemistater (?) (19mm, 6.36 g). Uncertain standard. Chimaera standing right, raising forepaw, on dotted ground line / Rough incuse square. Unpublished, but cf. CNG 66, lot 401 and CNG E-210, lot 79 for possible staters from this same issue. Near EF, toned, granular surfaces, scrape on obverse. Apparently unique.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was curious what the market would do with a coin not in their books. Unknown place, unknown denomination, nothing is certain except the style. The most rare coins are the ones that do not exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2852174, member: 19463"]Exactly right. I have half a dozen coins for which there are online records showing prices double or more what I paid. I wish I had noted them as I discovered them. It would make a good thread. Anything is possible if you accept the premise that CNG does not know the term 'AU' (Apparently Unique). [B]CNG 106, Lot: 451.[/B] Estimate $1000. [B]ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. [/B]5th century BC. AR Drachm or Hemistater (?) (19mm, 6.36 g). Uncertain standard. Chimaera standing right, raising forepaw, on dotted ground line / Rough incuse square. Unpublished, but cf. CNG 66, lot 401 and CNG E-210, lot 79 for possible staters from this same issue. Near EF, toned, granular surfaces, scrape on obverse. Apparently unique. I was curious what the market would do with a coin not in their books. Unknown place, unknown denomination, nothing is certain except the style. The most rare coins are the ones that do not exist.[/QUOTE]
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