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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7991103, member: 110350"]Yes, I forgot to mention CNG as a good, free resource for past sales -- limited to their own auctions, of course -- going back almost 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>My example of the type is not wonderful -- it's no Corinth stater! -- but it's certainly nice enough for me, and I paid $165 for it a couple of years ago as a retail purchase from Aeternitas in Spain (with no buyer's fee, of course). Probably about a quarter of what I paid for the stater, which is ex Roma from a 2015 auction. Here are the two:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386607[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>(By the way, I didn't look that carefully and didn't even notice that the NGC slab inexplicably identifies the head as Bacchus or Liber rather than Mutinus Titius or Priapus. The two types look nothing alike, and all the catalogs like Crawford, RSC, etc. distinguish between them and specifically identify the former as "young" Bacchus or Liber.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1386599[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7991103, member: 110350"]Yes, I forgot to mention CNG as a good, free resource for past sales -- limited to their own auctions, of course -- going back almost 20 years. My example of the type is not wonderful -- it's no Corinth stater! -- but it's certainly nice enough for me, and I paid $165 for it a couple of years ago as a retail purchase from Aeternitas in Spain (with no buyer's fee, of course). Probably about a quarter of what I paid for the stater, which is ex Roma from a 2015 auction. Here are the two: [ATTACH=full]1386607[/ATTACH] (By the way, I didn't look that carefully and didn't even notice that the NGC slab inexplicably identifies the head as Bacchus or Liber rather than Mutinus Titius or Priapus. The two types look nothing alike, and all the catalogs like Crawford, RSC, etc. distinguish between them and specifically identify the former as "young" Bacchus or Liber.) [ATTACH=full]1386599[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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