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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7525195, member: 110350"]Wow. Lovely coin, but $1,800? Really? I paid 250 Euros (just under $300) for mine last November -- less than six months ago -- to Lucernae, in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1299394[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine doesn't have that coin's provenance, but I happen to think (although of course I'm biased), that it's at least as nice. Especially because of the toning, and because all three horses' heads are completely on the flan, unlike on the coin just sold. Is the provenance worth that much extra? Or were there simply a couple of bidders who weren't very well-informed about the Roman Republican coin market? </p><p><br /></p><p>I know it's one of only two Roman Republican coin types depicting trigas, but still. I wonder if the buyer realized that this happens to be one of the larger Roman Republican coin issues, with 280 obverse and 311 reverse dies according to Crawford. It's not exactly scarce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7525195, member: 110350"]Wow. Lovely coin, but $1,800? Really? I paid 250 Euros (just under $300) for mine last November -- less than six months ago -- to Lucernae, in Spain. [ATTACH=full]1299394[/ATTACH] Mine doesn't have that coin's provenance, but I happen to think (although of course I'm biased), that it's at least as nice. Especially because of the toning, and because all three horses' heads are completely on the flan, unlike on the coin just sold. Is the provenance worth that much extra? Or were there simply a couple of bidders who weren't very well-informed about the Roman Republican coin market? I know it's one of only two Roman Republican coin types depicting trigas, but still. I wonder if the buyer realized that this happens to be one of the larger Roman Republican coin issues, with 280 obverse and 311 reverse dies according to Crawford. It's not exactly scarce.[/QUOTE]
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