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Did they summon a demon to do their business plan? Lol

I am not sure who is smoking more crack the analyst or yourself that left 5-digit pre bids 2 months before the auction takes place 😁

Is the attribution to Naxos supported by any references? Looking at the source of such coins dispersed in the recent years, Asia minor appears more probable...

🍿 I am grabbing my 🍿 and wait for the usual reactions from dealers, their collaborators and dealer apologists

It is called καθαρεύουσα and it was replaced by modern Greek (δημοτική) since nearly 50 years.

Unfortunately I can't offer any help in attributing the coin but I believe you somehow got lost in the Google translation as what you tried to translate is not modern Greek. It reads M-Y grapes in a dotted border. A dotted border is described also for the other side.

It is obvious that an imprint was taken before it was photographed by the first auction. The forger is basically the person who consigned the cast coins to cng and Roma. I would not be surprised if it is the same person who consigned the original to the first auction. It's pretty easy to find out who this is.

Dealers constantly bidding in auctions are: 1. Artificially inflating the prices 2. Demotivating and frustrating collectors 3. Making it impossible to estimate prices real collectors would be willing to pay If dealers would offer fair prices, more collectors would sell to them or consign in their eshops. But no, they would prefer to offer peanuts but then pay 3 times more for the same coin when it gets in auction. And Shanna Berk is distorting the market and annoying everyone - except perhaps for her client.

There are 2 reasons your consignment did not do well: 1. You won the coins in auctions and tried to flip them after short time. Do you think the underbidders whom you blocked from getting the coins they wanted, would happily bid again to give you flipping profit? 2. You tried to flip in an auction where the auctioneers themselves are also flipping and consigning. If you can't realise how the reasons above affected your consignments, you should better quit the flipping business.

What will happen if he is ? He will block Atherton from biddr?😁 It's interesting to see biddr owners bidding in the auctions they host in their platform. I am sure they don't use any bidding information to their advantage. It would be also easy to return the coin, because otherwise a return is never accepted unless you get a statement from Sear; even then returns are not accepted by some auctioneers. 😁

Also, this should only happen if you change pages very quickly many dozens of times over a certain period of time. This confirms my suspicion that the OP is an invented personality by an AI algorithm.

It seems that dealers and flippers now found their Eldorado in French auctions. It's convenient because the provenance gets lost and victim clients can't find previous sale prices. But photos are low quality and "experts" used are ignorants. As a result happy flippers slab their wins and on many occasions get nasty surprises which lead to loss instead of the desired flipping profits.

Where did you spot the medusa?! Why do I see the head of Hercules or Alexander? 🤔

I think it reads NIKAIEΙΩN there's an extra "I' between E and Ω

Forgers actively buy electrotypes and create from them fake dies. This is why electrotype prices suddenly went so high.

New owner will probably be extremely happy, however cng consistently underestimate coins by 30-50% so I am not sure the consigner could break even 😕

I wonder what is the meaning of cng announcing at what time the pre-bidding closes while it does not close. Bidders can still place bids up to the moment the exact lot gets sold live. So don't be surprised if the price goes up before the live starts 😵‍💫

I would say do not worry, you will get a refund but it will take time. They sent the package and paid Swiss post so it is normal that they file a claim with swiss post who will in turn request information from USPS. On top maybe this is the procedure to be followed in the sla with their insurance (if such an insurance actually exists). Of course with their advertised millions of profits they could spare you the waiting time. But if you are not one of their major clients they wouldn't bother.

Alan Walker is often forgotten for the work in the agora excavations but I think this was his major work and it is online http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/oa_ebooks/oa_agora/Agora_XXVI.pdf However, I would rather check other regions for the attribution before jumping to Athens. There are many other possibilities like akarnania, Apulia, cities in Asia minor. You should take into account the context of the auction. If it was 99% coins from Asia minor, the odds are against Athens

I could have said likewise for your stories of slabbing/flipping profits.

The moment I post it, it will be 2 auctioneers knowing my identity and profile me as a provenance seeker. Next time they will see me in an auction, they will jump to bid against me because they will believe I know a hidden provenance. By the way did you ever post one of your coins?

Last time I got a slabbed coin from heritage, the consignor was someone like you. He bought the coin from an obscure auction in which I actually was the second underbidder. Then he slabbed the coin and hoped for an easy profit in heritage. Unfortunately for fim, he lost at least 2000 USD out of it. To add insult to injury, the coin has a 1905 Hirsch provenance which neither the slabber nor the flipper cared to research. I think there is a colossal anomaly in the market and everyday I see new self-proclaimed experts (flippers) bidding aggressively for coins they have no idea about. Even auctioneers aggressively buy coins from auctioned collections so they can mix 1 coin with an old provenance among the hundred of new finds they are auctioning. Like in this way they will make the entire sale legitimate. Needless to say that it gives me great pleasure to rip the flippers. Possibly much more than just winning the coin itself.