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If the police are interested, wouldn't they know how to reach out to the auction house, who should know the exact consigners for the coin?

Unfortunately not, it seems they intentionally use covered bids before the live session. (I've seen auction houses that use Auex which have pre-bids shown on the site beforehand)

I didn't realize you could participate live in Künker floor auctions (as opposed to e-Live). How do you do that, @Restitutor? Kunker has let you bid on floor auctions live since covid began. https://kuenker.auex.de/live/ is the auction link.

I think for the Aureus in question, besides the roma link being a typo, he's referring to those coins (i.e. saying c.f.) and not saying that this is provenanced to those sales. I'm going off the numisbids listing, assuming that the text there is the original.

Generally my strategy when low-balling is if I'm very price conscious on the bid increment to bid the max when the coin is nearing that exact increment. If that's opening I'm happy to just place the bid down early, and if someone else outbids me to remove the lot from what I am watching. I think sometimes people see no bids as well which can encourage interest in getting a deal, and the pre-bid can help discourage that.

no, it's more close to a 2% increase.

Here's one of my two Tarentum Nomos. Hoping to pick up some nice dies of other types, but they're not really high priority. Here is the auction house's attribution: Calabria, Tarentum. Nomos circa 500-490. TAPAS retrograde Dolphin rider r., holding octopus. Rev. TAPAS retrograde Hippocampus r.; below, shell. SNG Lloyd 113 (these dies). Fischer-Bossert 36. Historia Numorum Italy 827.

In my opinion this fits squarely into the large run of busts/heads of gods that Kyzikos had! Think it fits right in with the series; a lot of individual coins seem to have been inspired by other mints 😃 You have a very nice example!

Cilicia, Tarsos. AR Tetrobol. 425-400 BC. Bellerophon riding Pegasus running right, brandishing trident overhead in left hand above dotted exergue line; bordered by dots; persian dynastic symbol (perhaps representing Tarsos?) below. / Same as obverse, but with Pegasus rearing, and no exergue lines. Unpublished in the standard references, for type cf Baldwins 34, 214 = Baldwins 37, 725. For stater variant, CF Nomos 18, 203; Roma 2, 344; Roma 16, 331. Extremely Rare. There are several different rare issues from Tarsos featuring Bellerophon, referencing one of the foundation myths of the city. In the myth, Bellerophon was one of the most famed kings alive, blessed by the gods with perpetual success and the right to ride the celestial Pegasus. The fame and success contributed to his hubris. After his triumphs over the Chimera, Solymni, Amazons, Carian pirates, and his hosts' army, he thought himself a god and attempted to fly into Mount Olympus. Zeus sent a gadfly to bite his mount, crippling Bellerophon when he landed on the ground. Tarsos was his landing point, and where his foot was injured; thus the city was named tar-sos (τᾰρσός) after the injury on the flat of his foot. Some versions of the legend has Bellerophon going through various cities in what is now Southern Turkey, and there are small issues of Bellerophon coins from other mints reflecting that fact. Please, share your coins of Tarsus here, or whatever you feel is relevant. Been a bit busy recently so haven't had time to photograph these coins and do write-ups, will try to get back into a more regular cadence.

Means it's all from one consigner. They had several coins in the last naville sale (mostly without a listed provenance, though some did have one) as well as the previous NAC sale (almost all with provenances).

My only owl. To my understanding it's Seltman Group L, but I haven't verified it. Been meaning to clean up some of the deposits, but haven't gotten around to it... ATTICA. Athens. 510/500-480 BC. AR Tetradrach. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet without design / AΘΕ, owl standing right, head facing; branch with two leaves and berry behind, all within incuse square. HGC 4, 1589. Seltman Group L.

Yes, it is!

Mysia. Kyzikos. EL Stater. 450-330 BC. Nude youth (Taras?) riding dolphin left, holding tunny in right hand; below tunny left. / Quadripartite Incuse Square. von Fritze 110. SNG BnF 251. BMFA 1486. Jameson 2184. This issue from Kyzikos is part of a series of imitative coins, minted in the types of other cities. A relatively small series from the mint, Kyzikos issued a series of coinage that imitates famous coinage from other mints, such as Tarentum, Velia, Akanthos, etc. This example references the dolphin riders of Tarentum, which continues from some of the earliest issues down to the last Nomos' of the mint. This is matched by another type imitative of the horse rider side of the coins of Tarentum.

Mysia. Kyzikos. EL Stater, 450-330 BC. Herakles, nude kneeling left, holding club in right hand over shoulder, and cradling rhyton in left; in right field tunny. / Quadripartite Incuse Square. Very Rare. von Fritze 209. SNG BnF 342. BMFA 1528. Jameson 2209. The obverse is a part of a long series of coins from Kyzikos depicting a variety of kneeling figures. Within this visual framework, Herakles is a popular recurring figure, being depicted with different objects (e.g. a bow). Here, he holds a Rhyton, a relatively obscure attribute sometimes associated with Herakles. He is related to the origin myth of the Cornucopia, also known as the horn of plenty, a special instance of the Rhyton containing overflowing produce, flowers, and nuts. Herakles wanted Deïanira's hand in marriage, and fought with the river god of the largest river in Greece Achelous for the right to marry her. River gods are classically represented as man faced bulls (see: Gela tetradrachms or Italian Didrachms), which are horned. In the myth, during the course of the wrestling match, Herakles ripped off one of Achelous' horns, which Achelous retrieved by trading for with the a horn from Amalthea, which is the famous horn of plenty. In Ovid's version of the myth, instead of having the horn be exchanged, Naiads filled it with foodstuffs and turned Achelous' horn directly into the Cornucopia.

For the US, it depends on international shipping agreements. Not all local shipping numbers will work upon arrival to the US (Poland, for example).

The coin is also an example of Hurter Liewald 2.2 (assuming yours is a myshemihekte)

They (Harlan Berk) actually finally fixed the back button like a couple months ago, it brings you back to where you were... though much slower than I'd like

And yet I own auction catalogues from the 1920s that are illustrated. It's 2020, I don't think he really should get a break for his very poor photos anymore with the simple access to cheap cameras. The way he takes his photos makes it so that the buyer is effectively taking a large amount of risk when purchasing from him. If he took high res photos it's possible to see what issues a coin may have, but as it is that isn't a possibility.

Correct.

I didn't win a coin, but a lot of the office was out sick with Covid. They're back to normal staffing now, but I'd guess it would take some time for them to catch up.

To be fair, the discord has had it's fair share of drama as well, hopefully it'll be nice here 😃

it's a myshemihekte. (I'm the seller)

I have a fairly large EL collection, though it's not on hand at the moment and I'm apparently poor at taking photos. Here's a (rather poor photo) of a lydia trite that I have on hand though. (The photo is on hand, not the coin).

Congrats! Pristine condition on that coin!

they're mostly unslabbed - you can tell when the coin is slabbed by the little white nubs in the pictures