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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7969239, member: 110350"]According to acsearch, of the 625 previous auction sales of the Roscius Fabatus (Juno Sospita/maiden and snake) denarius in their database, the two highest prices before this Aureo & Calico auction were $7,509 and $3,829, both in 2017. More recent prices have actually been somewhat lower: out of more than 60 sold since the beginning of 2020, I see only one in the $3,000 range, and another in the $2,000 range. So these astronomical prices, which obviously required at least two people willing to bid that high, are way out of line with anything before now. And not all of the examples are even all that outstanding. Perhaps the control mark pairs are particularly rare? Or there are two collectors out there trying to collect a full set of all the different control mark pairs?* Otherwise, I don't get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Crawford lists 242 different control-mark pairs for the type, so assembling a full set would be quite a task. See Crawford Vol. II Plates LXVIII-LXIX.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7969239, member: 110350"]According to acsearch, of the 625 previous auction sales of the Roscius Fabatus (Juno Sospita/maiden and snake) denarius in their database, the two highest prices before this Aureo & Calico auction were $7,509 and $3,829, both in 2017. More recent prices have actually been somewhat lower: out of more than 60 sold since the beginning of 2020, I see only one in the $3,000 range, and another in the $2,000 range. So these astronomical prices, which obviously required at least two people willing to bid that high, are way out of line with anything before now. And not all of the examples are even all that outstanding. Perhaps the control mark pairs are particularly rare? Or there are two collectors out there trying to collect a full set of all the different control mark pairs?* Otherwise, I don't get it. *Crawford lists 242 different control-mark pairs for the type, so assembling a full set would be quite a task. See Crawford Vol. II Plates LXVIII-LXIX.[/QUOTE]
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