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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 8115943, member: 94602&quot;]Attribution is not certain but 99% it is from Lesbos rather than an uncertain mint in Ionia. The coin is so rare that the only reference used for it, is the 1890 German edition of the book of Imhoof-Blumer on Greek coins. I haven&#039;t seen another one in thousands of old catalogs. I still need to check several SNGs but I doubt I will have some result.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember at the live I pressed the button for the starting price and waited. Time passed and nobody cared to bid it up even for 50 francs (starting price was an off-increment amount). I thought my internet connection stopped working. But a few stressful moments later the hammer fell and I burst into nervous laughter. I surely wasn&#039;t expecting this outcome. The coin sold for 1/4 of what the sheikh paid 10 years ago, a good example that he paid absurd prices for his coins. Yet if you do a bit of research, hammer prices for several of his coins now seem like bargains in this numismatic dystopia we are living in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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