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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3180837, member: 82322&quot;]I was the high bidder on an extremely rare bronze with CNG but lost it.&nbsp; This was when they first started taking bids by email instead of phone and didn&#039;t have their process fully refined.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]819665[/ATTACH] </p><p>CYCLADES, Seriphos. Circa 2nd Century BC. Æ 17mm (3.33 gm).</p><p>Obv: Head of Perseus right, wearing winged Phrygian helmet</p><p>Rev: Gorgoneion facing; harpa below.</p><p>CNG 60, May 2002, lot <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20088" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=20088" rel="nofollow">620</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The winning collector, who I consider the under-bidder, published an <i>SNG</i> volume and this coin is in it!&nbsp; However, the collector discovered the coin is a die-match for a specimen from a different island, Astypalaea, and not Seriphos after all.&nbsp; So CNG&#039;s mistake kept me from acquiring two examples of the same extremely rare island type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, although I eventually did snag a Perseus from Seriphos, my example has the harpa reverse and not the gorgoneion reverse.&nbsp; CNG did offer another Perseus/Medusa one, but I was too timid.&nbsp; For the last fifteen years I have been unable to locate another...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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