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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2550019, member: 56859"]Yeah, I won a few but they were also-rans on my target list. I bid on 17 coins and won 3. I'm happy to have a few ex-Dattaris but am sad to have missed my most wanted coins. There were several other coins that started high on the priority list but bidding was too high well before the start of the auction. Amazingly, there were a few unsold lots. None of today's coins were high grade but there were a large number of rarities.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was a big auction for me, being a collector of Roman Egyptian coins. I had to make a spreadsheet of all the lots when it posted in order to sort out which ones were priority. At the moment I'm filling in the hastily-written notes from the live auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's tempting to blame all of my losses on the infamous Clio (bidder names didn't show) but in reality I wasn't even the immediate underbidder on most of my losses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anticipating being the proud new owner of some ex-Dattari plate coins, I bought the Savio-Dattari book last week. Wow-- it's entirely plates, >13,000 coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2550019, member: 56859"]Yeah, I won a few but they were also-rans on my target list. I bid on 17 coins and won 3. I'm happy to have a few ex-Dattaris but am sad to have missed my most wanted coins. There were several other coins that started high on the priority list but bidding was too high well before the start of the auction. Amazingly, there were a few unsold lots. None of today's coins were high grade but there were a large number of rarities. This was a big auction for me, being a collector of Roman Egyptian coins. I had to make a spreadsheet of all the lots when it posted in order to sort out which ones were priority. At the moment I'm filling in the hastily-written notes from the live auction. It's tempting to blame all of my losses on the infamous Clio (bidder names didn't show) but in reality I wasn't even the immediate underbidder on most of my losses. Anticipating being the proud new owner of some ex-Dattari plate coins, I bought the Savio-Dattari book last week. Wow-- it's entirely plates, >13,000 coins :wideyed:[/QUOTE]
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