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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 4801672, member: 44357&quot;]The octodrachm you&#039;re targeting has a decent amount of &quot;meat&quot; on the bone and the cataloging indicating graffiti on the reverse is probably a bit overly conservative: it just looks like scratches, although I haven&#039;t viewed the coin in-hand. The flan issues aren&#039;t ideal and hold it back from being a $20K coin but the style is nice. For what it&#039;s worth, I&#039;m looking for the type but not interested in this coin due to its problems. I would personally rather pay 3x more for a nicer example than one where I&#039;d be distracted by issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>How would you plan on selling the coin/coins? It could be worth reaching out to the auction house of the third coin to see if they&#039;d be interested in your other two on consignment but if you needed an advance to pay for the new coin, they will likely be able to set the estimate which could mean there&#039;s a potential for a loss if yours don&#039;t sell as strongly as you wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the coins themselves, the Byblus shekel is indeed nice although I wouldn&#039;t put much stock in its grade relative to other graded examples: the vast majority of pieces simply haven&#039;t been graded. If you bought it in the Heritage 2016 sale, your price paid was reasonable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t recognize the Sidon tetradrachm but the lack of a patina means it likely doesn&#039;t have a pedigree so it&#039;s not going to be as sought after as some of the other, more expensive recent sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect you&#039;ll need to add in cash on top of both coins to pay for the octodrachm, especially considering that, with a small consignment, you will likely not be able to ask for more than just the hammer price (no portion of the buyer&#039;s premium).</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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