My experience with everyone's favorite seller

I'd do 50 0n that...

 

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He didn't go for 50 bucks

 

Too bad. Oh well, we tried.

BTW, what the heck is that post just before yours?

 

I don't know but it seems to have disappeared. Supermods to the rescue!

 

Supermods and supermembers. In this case, Ardatirion reported the post (thanks!), sometimes it's other members, sometimes we mods catch them right away. But the result is always the same: Zap, kapow, gone ...

Christian

 

Now I'm curious. What got posted exactly?

 

It was gibberish from a new member. It made no sense whatsoever.

 

Ah, just random spam then...

 

Yummm, Spam!

 

I tried once again with a 25% offer on a Pagan Commemorative, but it wasn't accepted either and no counteroffer. Oh well, I think I will quit trying.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/231136379039
The above item is making a stir in some fake groups. It is a horrid example of a tooled coin. The observation was made that this seller, in the past, usually had good coins but ridiculous prices. It now appears his certificates of authenticity are not worth much either. I do not recommend spending $2700.77 on a coin unless you can look at this one and see the problems.

For comparison, my Antonia cost $34 in 1987. Assuming a 1000% increase in value since then (that is a bit too much), I might justify something approaching $27 but I'm still a power of ten or two short of the asking price. What is a completely butchered tool job worth? I'd bid the 77 cents.

 

Wow, that's awful!

That tooling is almost as bad as my Diva Wicked Witch of the West oreo.

 

I'm bringing this thread from the dead because I recently bought another unid'ed VRBS ROMA FELIX from him for cheap. Surprisingly it was already at a reasonable price for this scarce type ($10.50), but I still was able to successfully get $2 off it through making a Best Offer deal, which was readily accepted.

Its of Honorius, the mint is Rome from the fourth officina (Q):



I got his business card again. It says he's world-renowned. That's for sure, at least among collectors of ancients. Also calls himself an expert numismatist. That I have trouble believing (I guess its a good thing though that he mis-attributed these VRBS ROMA FELIX coins I've bought off of him). Oh, and his photo still creeps me out.

Made a thread on the history of the Visigothic Sack of Rome that I think ties neatly with this coin type:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/rome-was-not-such-a-happy-city.236787/

 

Nice find, VK, and TIF: you got too much time on your hands, sister.

 

I, too, bought something from this guy. I offered about 1/8 of his asking price, which was still 25% more than he should have priced it at. Of course, I was happy to pay a reasonable premium for a tessera in the name of a freed slave.

ROME. Euhemerus, freedman of Lesbus (?)
PB Tessera (18mm, 2.42 g, 12 h)
EVHE/MERI
LES/B L
Rostovtsev 1444; Rostovtsev & Prou 422m; Turcan 193; Scholz 1436; BM 2228​

 

I guess I do not offer him enough since he has refused my offers on a couple different coins.

 

Never bought anything from this seller, but every time I see one of his auctions I feel uncomfortable with the business motto. Have to admit though, he has a lot of coins and some very nice ones too.

 

What do the inscriptions mean?

 

Euhemeri Lesb(i) l(iberti)

Euhemerus, freedman of Lesbus (or Lesbia).

 

Not in the defense of this seller, I have one I consider worse. He had a slabbed Septimius Severus denarius (Victory MINT STATE) I wanted so I offered twice what I thought it was worth and was rejected. A week later, I tried to Buy It Now on a different coin at his full price to find that I have been banned from bidding on his sales. I guess bidding 10% for an overcleaned Emesa identifies you as someone to avoid.