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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 7968670, member: 44357&quot;]Prices have indeed been extremely strong - sometimes flatly irrational - but based on the fact that a number of collector friends <i>have </i>bought coins (including some of the flagship coins in the sale), it isn&#039;t a case of a single buyer snapping up everything as in the Sheikh days.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I haven&#039;t won anything in the Leu sale, although if I had pushed a bit harder, I feel as if I could have bought a few coins; they just weren&#039;t &quot;must haves&quot; for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>(And, to the concerns on money laundering: coins are simply nowhere near expensive enough to facilitate money laundering at the scale of the art market. Some of the Aureo lots were indeed absolutely absurd... maybe the buyer thought they were paying in Yen?)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>21 is a dealer representing a number of clients and isn&#039;t a reserve. They have certainly paid a premium on some pieces...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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