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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LukeGob, post: 24645156, member: 73885&quot;]So, I recently had a 2nd, out of 2, kind-of sketchy experience with the same Auction House, through Biddr but not involving them. The lot in question is in the link below. I placed a winning bid, thinking it was a Barbarous imitation of a pretty rare type issued only at Thessalonica for Valentinian II (&amp; Theo. &amp; Arcadius); RIC IX, Thessalonica 58a for the model. It was described simply as of Val. II with a date struck &amp; mass &amp; Dia., no real specifics beyond that. Certainly nothing claiming it was specifically what I had assumed it was, just that it was of Valentinian II. But, turns out the coin is actually a tooled example of RIC VII, Heraclea 20 for Constantine II, as Caesar, with the obverse legend altered to be Val. II. I feel that that&#039;s enough of an error to negate the whole thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, granted, I did NOT figure this out until AFTER the hammer (I took a screen shot of the listing for my own records after winning the lot &amp; while admiring it, it just kind of hit me. Should&#039;ve figured it out sooner). But still. I wrote them to politely let them know what I think (know) the coin actually is &amp; to ask if they could take a 2nd look &amp; confirm. Seemed better than paying &amp; having it shipped halfway around the world just to have to return it &amp; get my money back, but what do I know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Without getting into specifics &amp; further airing publicly what was private; they were not hearing it &amp; I got the impression that the coin will be re-listed. &amp; I&#039;m banned (kind of like getting fired after you quit). Take a look, see for yourself, avoid my mistake &amp; do not bid if/when it comes back up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly, what&#039;s making me really question the whole thing is that I had another issue with the same place the only other time I tried them. Wanted to bid on a cheap coin, checked &#039;auction terms&#039; for shipping prices, saw a €15 option (along with a €30 option), even wrote &amp; checked that that was accurate as the wording was...not ideal, got confirmation, bid on &amp; won the lot only to find the only shipping option on my invoice was for €40 (Prices are approximate, pretty sure that&#039;s the exact amount, but I&#039;m not gonna go check, so, yeah, disclaimer). For a €12 coin. I wrote &amp; asked what to do. Back &amp; forth a bit but they finally said it was a some glitch in the set up for that particular auction &amp; they can&#039;t change it. But they&#039;ll hold the coin &amp; next time I won something they would add it to that order. Then they promptly sold the coin. I figured &quot;whatever, no worries, they have WAY more important customers than me &amp; my €12 lot to deal with. I&#039;ve bugged them enough, let it go.&quot; But I did figure it probably ought to earn me a few points of...I don&#039;t know, something good. Nope; their recollection seems to differ from mine &amp; the email exchange&#039;s. Doesn&#039;t matter, moving on. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not trying to say they&#039;re bad or anything like that. I can certainly see this being different through their eyes, especially since my winning lot, both times, was for an amount small enough that I can&#039;t really expect them to actually check up on, or do anything about, my issues. I can certainly see how I could be perceived as a minor customer who&#039;s now made problems in 2 auctions out of 2 that they&#039;d placed winning bids in. BUT (&amp; it&#039;s a BIG but), what I was trying to tell them is important. They aquired, missed a BIG problem with, &amp; sold at least a coin that was deliberately alerted in modern times to make it look like a much rarer &amp; more valuable coin. AND, taking a 2nd look through the other lots in the same auction, I&#039;m seeing more that may have the same, or similar, issue. That&#039;s why I&#039;m posting this here, as a warning to other auction participants.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know. Auction house &amp; auction number are in the link below (&amp; visible in the text of the link I imagine. N&amp;N London, Auct-XII, if not). If you happen to have won a lot in that auction, maybe take a second look? Has anybody else had issues with this auction house? I don&#039;t know what to think. Little annoyed. Easily could all just be a series of honest mistakes, but a lot of little red-flags has me wondering enough to ask what anyone else&#039;s experience was like with this place? Good? Bad? Thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/nnlondon/browse?a=3667&amp;l=4252704" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/nnlondon/browse?a=3667&amp;l=4252704" rel="nofollow">https://www.biddr.com/auctions/nnlondon/browse?a=3667&amp;l=4252704</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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