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<p>[QUOTE="pprp, post: 7711735, member: 94602"]Of course anyone is free to do whatever they want but I wouldn't advise anyone to get an agent. If they physically attend auctions they attract negative attention, for example someone seeing them aggressively bidding jumps in believing that there's something very special about the coin. They also attend only a few auctions and what's the added value of having them bidding on the phone if they can't check the coins as you say.</p><p><br /></p><p>NAC is supposed to be the most prestigious auctioneer and the owners are top experts themselves. Why do you need an agent to check the coins again? If you don't trust them don't buy from them. Whenever I had a doubt for a coin in CNG, I asked their numismatist and he always provided me with an objective description. </p><p><br /></p><p>Coming to the recent NAC auctions, I noticed a repaired Greek coin sell for 20k. The repair was not mentioned in the description so the options are either NAC didn't notice or they did notice but didn't say. On the buyer side, if the buyer used an agent, then the agent is no expert. If the buyer didn't use an expert then he shouldn't have trusted NAC. The repair was actually announced by Nomos when they sold the coin some years ago. So I come to my usual conclusion that you should hardly trust anyone but yourself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pprp, post: 7711735, member: 94602"]Of course anyone is free to do whatever they want but I wouldn't advise anyone to get an agent. If they physically attend auctions they attract negative attention, for example someone seeing them aggressively bidding jumps in believing that there's something very special about the coin. They also attend only a few auctions and what's the added value of having them bidding on the phone if they can't check the coins as you say. NAC is supposed to be the most prestigious auctioneer and the owners are top experts themselves. Why do you need an agent to check the coins again? If you don't trust them don't buy from them. Whenever I had a doubt for a coin in CNG, I asked their numismatist and he always provided me with an objective description. Coming to the recent NAC auctions, I noticed a repaired Greek coin sell for 20k. The repair was not mentioned in the description so the options are either NAC didn't notice or they did notice but didn't say. On the buyer side, if the buyer used an agent, then the agent is no expert. If the buyer didn't use an expert then he shouldn't have trusted NAC. The repair was actually announced by Nomos when they sold the coin some years ago. So I come to my usual conclusion that you should hardly trust anyone but yourself.[/QUOTE]
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