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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3187624, member: 97383&quot;]On September 15, 2010 I won a beautiful tetradrachm of Caracalla from Tyre, Phoenicia, at CNG Auction 85, lot 683, for $2,645.00. See photo below, courtesy of CNG.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]822379[/ATTACH] </p><p>I decided to sell the coin with a large consignment in the Heritage Platinum Auction on January 7, 2018. Before sending the coin to Heritage I sent it to NGC for slabbing. See photos below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]822382[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]822383[/ATTACH] </p><p>The time between buying &amp; selling the coin, almost 8 years, the ancient coin market lost a lot of its value as did the entire coin market. The antiques &amp; collectibles markets took a similar hit. It appeared that all these markets had peaked &amp; finally corrected. Heritage ended up selling my coin for $2,640.00, so I didn&#039;t feel too bad with the result. Yesterday while browsing thru the latest auction of Roma Numismatics of London, lo &amp; behold, I spotted my Caracalla tetradrachm stripped of its NGC encapsulation! See the link at the end of this post. The coin currently has a bid of 1,600 British pounds which converts to $2,078.33 American dollars. The London auction closes on the 26th of this month. I found it very interesting that no mention of the coin being in the Heritage auction was in their description. Will this coin sell for more raw than it did slabbed by NGC ? Time will tell....</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://romanumismatics.com/auction/lot/0482/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanumismatics.com/auction/lot/0482/" rel="nofollow">http://romanumismatics.com/auction/lot/0482/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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