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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 4869819, member: 94602&quot;]I think there were several recycled Greek coins from Triton XXII of last January either unsold or sold around the estimate, which now went quite higher than the previous hammer prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>The low hammer prices of lots 55/56 (the syracyse decadrachms), 95 (the Mende tetradrachm) and 97 (the Alexander Oktadrachm) demonstrate that CNG is increasingly relying on 2-5 bidders like Clio and McDuck from Chile. They are utterly unpredictable and don&#039;t focus on a collecting field. Some times they ignore coins with noted provenances, sometimes they go crazy for others. There is no pattern.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bidding platform failed again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prebidding did not close at 09:00am, instead people kept bidding after that time which is not at all understandable and caused more issues in the live as the auctioneer had to remove live bids because they discovered last minute &quot;prior&quot; bids.</p><p><br /></p><p>On some occasions the auctioneer said that he needed one more bid to clear the book - this caused a lot of negative comments the previous time and yet it happened again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was the underbidder in all lots I participated; the hammers for most of them were 2-6 times the estimate. I am fed up with Clio, McDuck and their numismatic advisors. Yes it&#039;s a free market and they can do whatever they like. If they have so much money why don&#039;t they move to NAC and let the mid-value coins for true-normal collectors?![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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