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On 7/19/2022 at 11:55 AM, Phil Davis said:

I rarely have this many coins at home and I need to head to the safe deposit box soon, but before I do that, I thought it might be fun to post some group snaps of my most recent additions. These are just quick pics with my phone; no comments from the peanut gallery about the quality of the images! Lol. It's ironic; I spent many years professionally engaged with really high end photography and I'm a decent photographer myself, out in the world, but I could never warm up to macro photography: not flowers, not bugs, not coins.  

 

Phil,

I sometimes joke that I have better memory for my friends' coins than my own while provenance hunting.  Well, today, I came across the below coin. Look familiar?  DeFalco FPL 66 (Sep 1964) Lot 2020. 

@jdmKY That's a lovely coin - a type I've wanted for some time but not yet managed to acquire.  Have you noticed that your coin has a very clear die clash visible on the reverse?  See my red notes on the version below. The L•S of the right legend is clearly visible in reverse incuse and "Brutus" incuse profile is facing 12h.  Interesting coin! 

10 hours ago, CPK said:

10 hours ago, Kamnaskires said:

 

The buyer’s premium does not impact the earlier calculation of what you, as the seller, will make on the deal.

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I know, I just thought the high buyer's premium is where CNG made their money.

It's not just CNG - nearly all coin auction firms earn commissions on both the buyer and seller side of the transaction, and many firms charge higher buyer fees than CNG! 

I have several coins from the Reinhold Faelton Collection.  Reinhold Faelton (1856 - 1949) was a musician, composer, the Dean and founder in 1897 of the Faelton Pianoforte School of Boston, Massachusetts, and a coin collector for over 50 years. His collection of ancient coins was sold by Stacks in January 1938. This Stack's catalogue was one of the earliest to feature photographs of actual ancient coins in the plates, rather than photos of plaster casts of the coins (which was the standard at the time). The resulting plates were mixed-quality but mostly poor, making it an arduous task to use this catalogue for provenance matching.

My two Ex Faelton coins:

21 hours ago, Phil Davis said:

Hey-- Not only is this the first post, but I won a "Conversation Starter" badge! Go me!

AND a "First Post" badge. Cointalk never showered me with these accolades!

I've been promoted to Rookie. 🤷‍♂️

Agree, the attributes are Victory.  Suspect Cupid has been generally named to be consistent with the obverse Venus.  That doesn't mean the experts are correct!    

I think that's a Crawford 28 drachm, @Alegandron.  Note the clearly defined, two sideburns.  

Ok, I'm here.  Let's get this party started!

I'll start with a rarity I overpaid for at CNG recently.   I had discovered some undisclosed information about the coin before the auction which fueled my excessive bidding.  It is Sear plate coin and has a 1909 provenance!

Rome, The Imperators.
Manius Cordius Rufus. 46 BCE
AR Sestertius (0.73g; 11mm; 6h).
Rome mint, 46 BCE.

Obverse: MN CORD; Diademed head of Venus, facing right.

Reverse: RVFI; Cupid advancing to right, holding wreath and palm.

References: Crawford 463/5b; Sear, HCRI 67 (this coin illustrated); Sydenham 980a (R5); BMCRR 4045-48; Cordia 7; RBW 1609 (this coin illustrated).

Provenance: Ex J. de Wilde Collection [CNG 120 (12 May 2022) Lot 727]; RBW Collection [NAC 63 (17 May 2012), Lot 384]; Numismatic Fine Arts XXIV (18 Oct 1990) Lot 1348; Consul E.F. Weber Collection [Hirsch XXIV (10 May 1909) Lot 322].
 

I like the Cr 68 a lot. Congratulations.