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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1934 Wreath Crown, post: 4361992, member: 76965&quot;]Sorry to disagree John but I didn&#039;t see anything in yesterday&#039;s auction that would command a 6 figure sum in US auctions or even the most exclusive European auctions. Having said that, I&#039;m not very knowledgeable when it comes to ancients and wasn&#039;t looking at all their listings.</p><p><br /></p><p>The issue I have with Roma is that they intentionally or unintentionally fail to highlight any issues with their listed coins. They believe in &quot;Caveat Emptor&quot; and buyers have to assess the quality of the coins themselves and take the risk. Also they don&#039;t post full hi-def pictures which would allow the buyer to really zoom in or enlarge the image of the coin and examine it in detail. HA and even in most cases, eBay post much better pictures IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the past I&#039;ve been through the exercise of trying to buy &#039;rare&#039; issues at Roma and selling them in the US but lost 20-30% on the ones I sold. My one and only attempt to test the feasibility of trading in coins and reduce the base cost of my collection......FAILED MISERABLY!!! Most of the coins had issues which were not mentioned in the listing or could not be readily seen in the pictures. </p><p><br /></p><p>Last night I was looking to buy one of their Carthage Zeugitana offerings but their coins had serious issues, in my opinion, marks on their surfaces, split/damage on the flan or poor surface quality of metal. Similarly, the Julius Caesar portrait by Buca interested me but the portrait itself was not very flattering. Probably done after one of Caesar&#039;s campaigns when army rations had run out<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the end I did buy one of their AV offerings but only because it had been previously graded, is a very rare type (only 3 known pieces) and I managed to sneak in under the radar and get it at well below estimates. It looked quite clean in the photos so let&#039;s hope they haven&#039;t done any damage to it when they cracked it out of the coffin.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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