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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3749091, member: 84744"]Oops, darn, I shouldn't have shelled out that much I guess! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just kidding, wasn't me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Savoca definitely makes a few attribution mistakes. Once I won a misattributed Judaean, but when I realized the error (a day or two after the auction) they were happy to cancel my bid. So if this was you, write to them!</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the errors sometimes occur in the buyer's favour too. Below are three bargains I nabbed as a result of Savoca mistakes. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005464[/ATTACH]</p><p>Johannes misdescribed as Theodosius</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005466[/ATTACH]</p><p>An extremely rare provincial of Augustus from Phokaia, misdescribed as a common Smyrna type</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1005467[/ATTACH]</p><p>An extremely rare early Islamic Byzantine imitation from the 640s-650s (Rashidun caliphate), misdescribed as an ordinary Constans.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Savoca has collected up enough bidders now that it's getting a lot harder to snag a bargain from them. For example there were some misdescribed rare late Byzantines in a recent auction, but their hammers went through the roof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3749091, member: 84744"]Oops, darn, I shouldn't have shelled out that much I guess! :banghead: Just kidding, wasn't me. :D Savoca definitely makes a few attribution mistakes. Once I won a misattributed Judaean, but when I realized the error (a day or two after the auction) they were happy to cancel my bid. So if this was you, write to them! Of course the errors sometimes occur in the buyer's favour too. Below are three bargains I nabbed as a result of Savoca mistakes. [ATTACH=full]1005464[/ATTACH] Johannes misdescribed as Theodosius [ATTACH=full]1005466[/ATTACH] An extremely rare provincial of Augustus from Phokaia, misdescribed as a common Smyrna type [ATTACH=full]1005467[/ATTACH] An extremely rare early Islamic Byzantine imitation from the 640s-650s (Rashidun caliphate), misdescribed as an ordinary Constans. But Savoca has collected up enough bidders now that it's getting a lot harder to snag a bargain from them. For example there were some misdescribed rare late Byzantines in a recent auction, but their hammers went through the roof.[/QUOTE]
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