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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2876555, member: 80783&quot;]As my collection kept growing and I want to restrict myself to one coin per ruler (preferably unpatinated Sestertii), as enforced by my girlfriend, I have decided to part with some of my older purchases, especially the Dupondii which I could replace with Sestertii of the respective rulers, the Sestertii which I managed to replace with better Sestertii, and Paduans I could replace with ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I had thought about offering my surplus on eBay for a while (but never managed to actually do so due to a certain laziness), I received a mail by an auction company I had bought something from before asking to hand in coins for their fall auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I liked the idea of seeing my coins in a catalogue and sent them in, barely making the deadline. I admit that it was a spontaneous decision and that I maybe should have waited and contacted other firms also.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they sent me the contract I was a little surprised that only my Galba Sestertius is supposed to be offered separately and the other 11 coins were to be offered as a mixed lot.</p><p>I immediately called the company but even though they agreed that a Nero Sestertius is something that ought to be offered on it´s own, they told me that it was too late to split the lot as they had already distributed the lot numbers. I was unhappy but agreed to give it a try even though I could have asked them to sent the coins back to me instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>The shock came this morning when I received the online copy of the auction catalogue:</p><p><br /></p><p>My Galba is presented nicely as expected:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2234&amp;lot=305" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2234&amp;lot=305" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2234&amp;lot=305</a></p><p><a href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4181&amp;category=110769&amp;lot=3425102" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4181&amp;category=110769&amp;lot=3425102" rel="nofollow">https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4181&amp;category=110769&amp;lot=3425102</a></p><p><br /></p><p>However, the other coins are described (in German) merely as &quot;Augustus to Philippus Arabs, 10 AE coins, a beautiful cross-section of Roman history, plus a modern Vitellius&quot; without mentioning (or describing) the actual contents.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2234&amp;lot=435" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2234&amp;lot=435" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2234&amp;lot=435</a></p><p><a href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4181&amp;category=110769&amp;lot=3425232" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4181&amp;category=110769&amp;lot=3425232" rel="nofollow">https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=4181&amp;category=110769&amp;lot=3425232</a></p><p><br /></p><p>-How and why should anyone who might be looking for anything that is included (Sestertii by Nero, Elagabalus, Julia Domna, Trajanus Decius, Philippus Arabs plus Dupondii by Augustus, Nero and Vespasian, an AE 30 by Caracalla, and a dubious medallion of Otacilia Severa) even be able to find this lot on any auction site???</p><p><br /></p><p>They had not even bothered to even UNPACK my coins (or the provenance info that I had included with each one) before putting them online and in the printed catalogue!!! They just took a picture of the coins the way I had packed them, the coins hardly visible under the plastic with no identification or reverses shown:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]688567[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>- Why should anyone bid their minimum estimate of 370 Euros (plus charges, of course) for something that is not properly identifiable on the picture?</p><p><br /></p><p>- Or is it common practice that mixed lots are bought by dealers who look at them in person anyway?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is not what I had expected but I guess it is my own fault. Need I worry?</p><p>Dazed, confused and a little sad, JG[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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