Hesiod

I think the image embed failed, but congrats!

But why bother buying the company when the name and reputation is probably more poisoned then just starting a new company from scratch?

You won that one? I think I bid on it, though it's been a bit so I can't recall. I did win the next lot so I guess we're auction buddies in a way 😀

I'm curious what the coin is and what provenances it had?

I think in this case it's because their competition raised their fees already

Three of those coins are quite rare (6 - Stymphalos, 7 - Argolis, and 20 - Thebes) but the others look fairly common for the area

I'm personally excited to see what you won!

Nomos sent out an email saying they'd provide a FPL. In general (though I haven't gone personally), some of the auction houses have inventory not listed online as well –– I've had friends who've gone sent me pictures of coins from Gorny and one of the nordic auction houses (I want to say Bruun, but i can't recall).

Best way is to build or have access to a photo file. Your method is looking for pedigrees others have found and then forgotten which is on the rare side for better firms as they'll look for prior listings of a coin on the search engines

Roma's handle at Nomos used to be Nibelung. I haven't kept track recently.

Leu has never photographed the reverses and tends to do "piled up" photos. CNG doesn't photograph all coins for larger group lots. They're pretty consistent in this

I don't usually bother with private collectors, but nowadays I mostly only see them on reddit as I've been not reading as much other media. For auctions, I'll send them an email with the reasoning and call it a day (and whine to people who I might have discussed the coin with if it's ignored)

Naumann is more of a high secret minimum then shill bid to maximum house, imo. I've been underbidder for coins that have gotten relisted on several occasions

You have to do it manually unfortunately. I wasn't paying attention to bidder numbers this time around but the sale didn't feel nearly as heinous as the previous one

When two whales want a coin really badly... I have the same reaction about the kroton stater (https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=7084&lot=1033) going for 13k