FINALLY a win! NAC buy today

FINALLY won something. Picked this up in NAC today, and was 1 of the 2 coins I bid on. I lost by a pretty heavy margin on the other.

Anyone else have NAC wins?


Tetradrachm circa 474-470, AR 17.40 g. Slow quadriga driven r. by charioteer holding kentron and reins; above, Nike flying r. to crown the horses. Rev. ΣV – RA – KOΣ – ION (partially retrograde) Head of the nymph Arethusa r., wearing pearl diadem, single pendant earring and pearl necklace; around, four dolphins swimming clockwise. de Nanteuil 322 (these dies). Randazzo 487 (these dies). Boehringer 320. Wonderful iridescent tone and about extremely fine Ex Ira & Larry Goldberg sale 72, 2013, Hunter, 4014.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

Congrats!

 

Congratulations! That's a wonderful coin at a very reasonable price. Syracuse in general was relatively inexpensive today. I still was outbid on my few attempts but was in only to weak levels because of upcoming lots in tomorrow's session.

I think you'll really enjoy that coin when you receive it: I viewed it in the Hunter sale in 2014 and it looks like it's developed a really nice additional tone since then; a great buy all-around!

 

Beautiful coin @kazuma78 ...congrats!

 

Thanks! I was thrilled at the price and pleasantly surprised. I can't wait to see it in hand. There were some relatively reasonable prices on different things today. The Carthage tet that sold in the Leu Winterhur sale last year also seemed reasonable for how great of a coin it is. If I had rounded up some extra money, I would have bid on that piece too.

 

Very good kazuma 78. Actually I was looking at that coin. However I ended up with this one Lot 264 Syracus tetradrachm Boh 85 So I guess we both got lucky

 

A beautiful example.

Congratulations!

 

I liked this one a lot too. Great coin!!

 

Ditto.

 

Both coins are gorgeous!!!!

 

kazuma78, Great score ! They don't come any better than that coin .

 

Excellent capture, @kazuma78 ! Congrats.

Mine:


Syracuse
Gelon 485-478 BCE
AR Tet 24mm 16.7g
Slow Biga Victory
Arethusa 4 dolphins
Sear-Greek
S 914
ex: Charles Reeve

 

Big ol' congrats, @kazuma78! It's a beauty .

 

Thanks! It should fit in well with my other buys this year. I can't wait to do my top 10 list of 2020 at the end of the year.

 

I finally won something today...(which I didn't expect to), though I still paid significantly more than I had anticipated! It'll definitely be in my top 10 (or 15)!

 

Love it! Care to post it here? If not, thats ok, but I always love seeing peoples pickups from these auctions.

Tell me it was this one! Only a cool $565k

 

Wow!

 

@kazuma78 I feel poor posting mine in this thread, but here it is! LOL

Mine is an upgrade of a coin I already have....a siliqua of Eugenius

 

Thats a nice coin! A lot of sharp detail on that one. Nice pickup!

 

OK, I guess it's time to break the news, I won the Coliseum Sestertius .


Just kidding of course.