Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1687546, member: 42773"]If in fact there is some tooling on this coin, I just don't think it  matters, at least to me. Ancients get cleaned and retooled and recolored and otherwise restored all the time. The question is rarely, "was the coin restored?" but rather, "was it restored properly?" When I first saw the coin, I guessed that someone on vcoins or eBay could have listed it for $300, and it would have sat on the shelf, and the dealer would have wondered why nobody wants it. You put a coin up for auction with a low starting bid and no reserve, and it will generally sell for half of a vcoin listing or eBay BIN. That's why I think this coin did as well as it could have at $150. That's exactly as high as I  would have gone, if I were in the market for it.[/QUOTE]