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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 6650373, member: 94602&quot;]To analyse this a bit more, Tauler just found the LHS listing in acsearch and copied the text. Last time I checked in the map, the coastline of Croatia was not part of Boiotia-Thessaly. So it should have been Illyria in the first place. Then the importance of the coin is not the provenance. I wouldn&#039;t care less if Napoleon had it as pendant and slept with it every night. There are only 2 silver coin types struck by Pharos, out of which only the Prowe and the Weber/Jameson ever reached the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the bidding itself, I hope the pre-bidder who entered a maximum bid of 5001 euros on Sunday evening got a nice lesson. His pre-bid got tested several times in minimum steps 40 minutes before the live until his max was reached. In the meantime someone placed an off-bid increment which corresponds to a round number in pounds. From a level of 1300 euros, in a few minutes, the coin started the live at 5250. Most of the bidders were aware of the importance this coin would have for their pocket and would surely like to resell it for a profit. Or maybe they advised their wealthy clients and bid on their behalf, and got their commission.&nbsp; Apart from Schmidt, I am sure some of Wadell-ROMA-CNG-CLIO bid for it. The chillionaire&#039;s advisor bid 11.000 by phone and lost. I sincerely hope a museum or a governmental organisation won this. Otherwise we might see this pop up in a month&#039;s time in the usual online shops selling for 25000$, of course with the Tauler venue forgotten.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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