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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iamtiberius, post: 3187668, member: 37707&quot;]The eagle behind bust is a nice touch by the engraver. I haven&#039;t seen that used before on a Provincial Phoenician tet. As far as the price; it&#039;s hard to gauge off a single coin. Too many variables to come to a sure conclusion. It could be based off of one person being out of cell service, forgetting about the auction, alarm not going off, winning something earlier in the auction and budget running out, if [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] or Clio are busy, etc.&nbsp; I think the trend is going up, price wise. I&#039;ve seen several of the same coins come to auction within the last decade. Though I can&#039;t quote many off the top of my head, in discussion, I seem to always talk about the increase of price in ancients, using prior hammer prices as a reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>The opposite of what you&#039;re expecting happened last year.</p><p>The following stater, slabless, sold in Roma 13, 3/23/2017 for 5952 USD (incluing Buyer&#039;s Premium)</p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/roma/013/image00370.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/roma/013/image00370.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/roma/013/image00370.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Image Source: <a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=1884&amp;lot=370" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=1884&amp;lot=370" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=1884&amp;lot=370</a></p><p>Note: only 3 examples exist, and 1 of them is nearly cut in half. (I still can&#039;t believe how cheap, relatively, ancients are to US.)</p><p><br /></p><p>5 months later, after receiving its plastic, it was consigned to the ANA 8/3/2017 Heritage Auction. It sold for 11,162 USD (including Buyer&#039;s Premium.)</p><p><br /></p><p>A difference of 5000 USD, in plastic, 5 months later. Did the NGC slab make a difference? My answer: &quot;Conjecture, conjecture, conjecture. In conclusion: chaos theory, philosophy and conjecture.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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