Hesiod
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It's in "Ancient & Medieval Coins" on facebook, which is private. https://www.facebook.com/groups/ancientnumis/posts/6599156340170620/
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https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11229912 An example of a coin where they list a 2005 provenance which is clearly false
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This 2005 provenance shenanigan is such a common practice, and demonstrably false on some coins it's been provided to, such that yes we can assume them and other swiss firms fake these provenances
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I don't know about the specific coins in question, but mike (the owner of cng) made a comment on Facebook about stolen coins (see the second post)
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Wonder what coins were stolen that already sold in the last sale, might be annoying to be the winner of one of those
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CNG Feature Auction 124 Catalog is out with my Vespasian aureus
Hesiod replied to DonnaML's topic in Roman Empire
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Coins with a mythological theme, particular with a focus on scenes from mythology (minus city founding), and monsters. I try to avoid buying gods/heroes standing as well unless they're particularly rare, and buying coins for the bust.
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It's bronze (which the OP didn't make clear) so would probably just be under whatever AE<MM> denominations
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happens when you start most of your lots at 10%-20% of the value of the coin. same as heritage weeklies starting all their coins at 1$.
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i'd be very surprised if they didn't
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I mean, 1 technically, but that umbrella is extremely vague in my case
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Coin 1 - Bid on the coin, not the description. I'd bid as if it was a non-plate, which it is. Coin 2 - Probably not. Coin 3 - Probably not. Coin 4 - Only if it's an upgrade, but I try to not have duplicate types.
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Lots of auction houses have per coin minimums, and auction houses generally don't want to lot individual coins that are worth less than 75-100$ish, so I think selling on eBay or doing private sales would be the best way to maximize returns
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it really depends on the coins. what is the general value?
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yes. I had upgraded it and didn't need it anymore. Congrats on the pickup, it's quite cheap - significantly less than I had paid for it
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I was the consigner for this coin, congrats! It's quite nice in hand 🙂
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That's because daily mail sucks, the naxos tet that the DA complained about wasn't that one.
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Yeah, it's a bit hard to tell what's to the left of the lyre –– a legend? a control of some sort? just bronze issues? and the lack of any possibly surviving legend (or certainty of lack thereof) makes it hard to determine
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Pretty sure your coin is far too underweight to match the attribution you gave it, but so little survives and theming on your coin is so common it's pretty hard to pinpoint what it is
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It seems that logging was returning 504 at some point, though; which would indicate that if you weren't already logged in you could not bid on any coins. Sounds like it wasn't a full outage, but a partial one, precluding some from bidding.
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In fact, I see for that login for some people started failing midway, so if I wanted to bid on a lot the site wouldn't have let me log in to make a bid; whereas if you were already watching you would be fine.
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Reduced access to the lots means some bidders who didn't realize that would be screwed over; I'm also curious if access was working fine for mobile users
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The website went down, and the lot 240 was chosen to be approximately right before the site went down? So most bidders weren't affected, and most consigners were. It's a bad situation to be in, but it happens (and this isn't really at CNG's fault, auction-mobility went down as a whole)
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How do you do this on sixbid? It seems to take the nominal number when sorting by price ascending or descending, ignoring exchange rates at the time; whereas ACSearch to have saved the conversion rates on the day of the sale and use that when sorting by price.
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I watched about 100 lots in the auction to bid on. One buyer did pick up 70% of the lots, and many of the outstanding hammers were his. There was a floor bidder who had good taste who won some coins at jaw dropping prices, and may have bid him up on some, but that person didn't seem to care. He also bought several coins the next day at Nomos 27 which seemed to line up with the coins that Berk had highlighted in his podcast.
