KenDorney

Did a couple car shows this weekend. We have this big event called Cool April Night, loads of cars and shows. My 66 Type I is the one with the logo in the pic. I was excited to do the cruise until I realized I have a coin show this weekend. Ah well. Maybe next year.

Someone posted these on facebook and I thought they would make a really cool silver bullion round. Kinda pricey to have made though.

I can see them, so perhaps the feature is working.

Working on a collection of Roman ladies and their hairstyles, just picked up some of the easiest for far (trying to get decent EF if possible).

Look to be Chalkoi of Ptolemy III minted in Cyrene, but its hard to say, the pics are not good enough for me to tell. They look to be severely over-cleaned, so that will reduce the value by at least 50% or more.

Well, this thread went a bit sideways, and many of the responses are confusing to say the least. It is very important to remember that slabbed coins are not guaranteed in any way, shape or form. If you ask NGC for example, they will waffle around a bit and say that they wont slab a coin unless it is genuine, but they dont guarantee them. So in the case of the Lydian coin above, there would be a chain of possession to follow. First the buyer would have to convince Heritage the coin is false. If they did accept a return, they would have to take it up with their consignor, who would have to take it up with CNG, and finally their consigner as well. All of these steps are dependent on each person accepting the coin in return. Any one of them refusing or disagreeing on the authenticity stops the process. The slab will have no bearing on any of this at all. It is simple plastic and represents nothing but an opinion in the end.

I wont get into the merits of slabbing (I'm not a fan). But as to how the coins are photographed and presented on VCoins, we have a new requirement and that is that if a coin is graded the slab must be shown. I'm guessing its to ensure the slab is correct and genuine and buyers can look the serial number up to confirm. In the past I've just listed the number in the lot description but going forward I will do my usual side by side obverse and reverse with the pic of the slab as an additional photo.

I picked this up at todays Roma sale for the simple reason it looks like the King of Pop to me!

I show the same thing.

Is there nothing there because it doesnt work or nobody has posted yet?

Not at the time I added it to the collection. Havent looked recently.

It entirely depends on the type of coin, where they were found and age. You might be surprised to find that they are often nearly as made. A couple years ago I bought part of a hoard of Tabaristan hemidrachms that looked pretty darned nice, just a small amount of light soil adhering. Attached are a couple pics, before and after cleaning.

Thrace, Byzantion, Time of Severus Alexander, 222 – 235 AD Æ20, 4.81 grams Obverse: Head of youthful Dionysos right wreathed in ivy. Reverse: Ostrich running left being hunted by a dog. References: BMC 59 // Imhoof-Blumer pl. 5, 52 // Bernhard pl. 4, 9 // Pick 21 b, p. 48 // Schönert-Geiss, 2126.2, p. 150, pl. 131

Here is my Hadrian As. Currently my favorite coin and I always love to show it off!

Here is my Pseudo-Autonomous example from Byzantion:

Also, as a dealer I have this kind of thing going on. Loads of stuff in bags, boxes, envelopes, etc. Some of it has been sitting for years. I just cant get to it all right away, I just grabbed a few for the pic.

Seems many of us are in a similar situation. As others have pointed out, there is only so much time in the day, so I only work on my collection when I have time (which is not often these days). I have trays of coins sitting on the bookshelves atop the books, stashed waiting to be processed. In this pic you can see I have one tray worked up and another not, none of it photographed at all. It can often take months to get it done.

Not cast. Perfectly genuine.

This was offered to me recently by a well known dealer. He did not agree with me that it was tooled. You will likely see it in an auction soon.

Thats a pretty insane price. Some of these have hammered for a couple hundred last year, but to be fair others sold for similar prices. I wonder where the market is going for ancients these days.

You might have noted with Roma that they now are listing if a lot has a reserve or not. Seems a little odd, if it has a reserve of 100 GBP then the bidding should start there, but it doesnt, it starts at the usual low amount.

That's more offered at one time in quite a while. It will be interesting to see, but I doubt there will be any real bargains. The market seems to still be readily absorbing these without any loss of price. In fact it seems that prices have steadily been increasing over the last couple years.

Dealers come and go. They sell what they have, and if they are a 'source', often they sell out and there isnt anything else. 'Interesting' is entirely subjective. It can mean no coins, or a plethora. Yes. There is insane competition these days. Often coins going for 2-10 times what they are realistically worth. Auctions are just not where is is now. I see many more deals with fixed price dealers. But you gotta know your material.

So, in my 'old age', ... letting go of many of my old references. My metric is that if I have not used a reference in roughly 20 years, I likely do not need it. So, As such have disposed of many books. I had consigned many books to CNG but after many years and no contact from them I suppsose that is a loss. Anyway, here are a few pics of what I might think are standard works.