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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2162575, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m not so sure we are seeing the big picture here.&nbsp; That is a coin that would expect to bring over the 7000 realization.&nbsp; Compare:</p><p><a href="http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/stater-of-amastris-with-head-of-mithras-1502" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/stater-of-amastris-with-head-of-mithras-1502" rel="nofollow">http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/stater-of-amastris-with-head-of-mithras-1502</a></p><p>If the Boston MFA paid $22k for theirs which is a low grade &#039;dog&#039; in comparison, someone (I do not know nor care who bought it) could see a strong possibility that this really nice one would be worth more.&nbsp; Now buying something at that price and trying to resell it for a respectable 30% profit strikes me as a good way to go broke so starting high and leaving room for negotiating seems like a good way to be able to wholesale it to a dealer who has a buyer possibly willing to pay a good percentage of the number leaving room for all concerned to be pleased with the situation.&nbsp; The only questions I see remaining is why the museum paid so much for their coin and why some collector who buys coins in that bracket did not bid it up.&nbsp;&nbsp; Is this a $21k coin?&nbsp; It has better claim on that ballpark than some.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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