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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8364789, member: 74282&quot;]Many were speculating about the final hammer price of the Eid Mar Aureus below, which went up for auction at NAC 132 today. You can read more about the coin itself <a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/nac/browse?a=2504&amp;l=2798334" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/nac/browse?a=2504&amp;l=2798334" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The final hammer price was 2,200,000 CHF, or about $2,300,000 USD(+fees), a very large increase on its previous hammer prices of 120,000 CHF(about $92,000) at NAC 27 in 2004 and 230,000 CHF(about $226,500) at NAC 45 in 2008.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484462[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Just like the last Eid Mar Aureus that was auctioned at Roma XX, I recorded the live auction for this one, and the video is available below. The first couple of minutes are just the auctioneer making sure all room and phone bidders and staff are ready so skip to 2:38 if you want to go directly to the bidding portion.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]aPCDsJOT9aQ[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>How did this result line up with your expectations? I posted <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientCoins/comments/ut0d96/some_nice_coins_in_the_upcoming_ars_classica/i97ndmd/?context=3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AncientCoins/comments/ut0d96/some_nice_coins_in_the_upcoming_ars_classica/i97ndmd/?context=3" rel="nofollow">on another site</a> that I expected it to hammer in the 1.25-2 Million CHF range with a small chance of going way above that, so it wasn&#039;t too far outside my estimated max. It also left Roma&#039;s record intact for the most expensive ancient coin ever sold with their <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7472945" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7472945" rel="nofollow">Eid Mar aureus sold in Roma XX</a> for £2,700,000 or about $3,500,000(+ fees).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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