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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8084595, member: 110350&quot;]Well, so much for my waiting to bid for one more Roman Republican coin in an upcoming auction before starting to put together my list of top RR coins for the year.&nbsp; Once again, it&#039;s an M. Volteius snake biga denarius, and once again, I&#039;m defeated -- this time before the auction actually begins. The live auction phase doesn&#039;t start for almost two more days, and the pre-bidding is already up to 1,865 €.&nbsp; (See <a href="https://www.cgbfr.com/volteia-denier-spl,brm_697392,a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cgbfr.com/volteia-denier-spl,brm_697392,a.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cgbfr.com/volteia-denier-spl,brm_697392,a.html</a>.) Which is almost twice as much as the absolute maximum I planned to bid or realistically could afford to bid. In the end, the price may well equal or exceed the 2,550 € that a similar (and probably slightly better) example sold for in a Soler y Llach auction in late October. What is it about this coin that makes decent examples so incredibly expensive lately? The prices weren&#039;t nearly this high even a year or two ago. I guess everyone wants one as much as I do, and a lot of them have much deeper pockets!</p><p><br /></p><p>So now I don&#039;t have to wait to begin my RR list. I&#039;m pretty sure of seven or eight already, and have about 10 candidates for the final two or three. So I&#039;ll probably do exactly what I did last year: have a poll with those 10 coins to help me pick the last two or three spots for my list.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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