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Have you read the BCD catalogue –– specifically the catalogue, and not the acsearch/coinarchives listings? It's the most recent scholarly writing about this in a organized fashion, and details both why he wants certain dates and refers to Picard (the published major reference) and about why he disagrees with certain dates. If you're not happy with his discussion I am not aware of more recent scholarship. Keep in mind that acsearch/coinarchives does not include any of the scholarly text that is outside the lot description for a specific coin itself, but BCD frequently has more overarching discussions at before his coins. You can read a pdf of the catalogue here: https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/catalogues/auction-55/

If I recall correctly, the ANS has done this at their Galas in the past but I'm unsure about results.

You wake up at 5 am or 5:30 for auctions after staying up to 3 AM for an auction 😬

I was not a fan of the greek prices, and the argos tet seems suspiciously close to the Caprara exapmle to me; though I'm not certain. A lot of the coins seemed to be generously graded as well (the worst example pointed out to me was https://www.hjbltd.com/#!/inventory/item-detail/ancient-coins/102364?fromBbs=223rd Buy Or Bid Sale )

I suspect both @Deinomenid and @Kazuma78 are referring to the Nomos 26 auction (Sans Pareille), which I am personally also very excited for

Guess it's live bid or bust on everyone except the few explicitly trustworthy firms

Other firms with photos of their staff Leu: https://leunumismatik.com/en/aboutleu CNG: https://cngcoins.com/About+CNG.aspx Nomos: https://nomosag.com/about-us

This makes sense when the auction isn't being run on biddr, but in the case where the auction is I don't see how this is the case (as the system auto applies the bids anyway!)

do you know if they can see proxy bids? Time to never prebid on biddr again

It's not uncommon for authenticity reasons. https://egyptindependent.com/fugitive-suspects-create-fake-ancient-cemetery-to-defraud-antiquities-dealers/ happened for example

Some coins I thought went cheap. I wasn't bidding on most due to being an American, though: https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837176 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837194 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837323 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837386 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837389 https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837426 (well, maybe only one increment) https://www.biddr.com/auctions/romanumismatics/browse?a=3352&l=3837622

Material I was eying wasn't weak, and if it weren't for customs concerns I'd have been happy to blow 10k or so on this sale with the hammers

The results felt fairly weak to me, personally.

Deflation of any item isn't guaranteed, particularly with a inflationary currency

Based on the complaint, it sounds like Mr. Beale did exactly this

Soros has been subject to a lot of conspiracy theories recently, particularly among alt-right groups online so you bringing him up unprompted lead to some of the visceral reactions of posters here

Correct, the only digitialized ones are ex-numis (which you pay per submission), and acsearch (on an extremely limited amount of catalogues). rnumis is just the raw pdfs you can look for. Ex-numis is the closest thing to what you're asking for. But you pay per submission, and per hit.

No, informant #2 reached out to Beale by email after the sale was public, about two weeks before the sale. Thus, this offer of 100k francs should come after this contact and should be in response to them saying that the provenance from Provenance Person 1 is false. Informant #1 doesn't seem to factor into this specific provenance creation loop at all.

Depends on the coins you want. A lot of old catalogues are online, and you generally get a sense of what kinds of sales/firms have what kind of coins. Rnumis (https://www.rnumis.com/) is helpful for a easy way to find certain digitalized catalogues.

This isn't what Beale was doing based on the complaint. He was offering 100k to the informant #2 (some party related to the baron? in some way) to sign provenance documents (with the implication that this was doing so falsely). Not spending 100k on manpower for people to go through documents, or some such.

If it is the same person as the schulman sale, it's rather interesting that there seems to be a 57 year gap between the sales!

Roma/Beale certainly knows. But depending on the purchasing country, it may not be possible to recover.

I didn't parse your other post (those posts having been posted when I was asleep and mostly having skimmed the postings), but it's a fair mistake to make, as the island of Naxos also minted coinage (staters with kantharos).

I don't think the DA has released what evidence they're basing these off of, but in the past for antiquities they've cross referenced items against polaroids taken from known looters warehouses/uncleaned items/etc. I would think they have some kind of evidence beyond "this coin is from Italy with no known provenance" but I don't know if they've shared any of it publicly as of yet. A FOIA request may reveal more info, but I haven't filed one

Well, to my understanding the naxos tet should only come from sicily, italy; so they'd be repatriating it to Italy. The eid mar is a bit more difficult, as to my understanding we're not sure exactly where it was minted, supposedly either Greece or western Turkey. So, it is a bit more difficult to know who we would be repatriating the eid mar to.