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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by Heliodromus on April 02, 2024, 07:53:32 AM »
If you click on the bidding history it shows 4 bidders, one topped out at EUR 5, one at EUR 20, then the remaining two pushing it to final EUR 1200 (took a lot of bid increments to get there).

The winning bidder submitted their bid about an hour before the lot closed, so must have been a pre-bid or proxy bid. The underbidder looks like they started bidding when the lot went live, so probably a live bidder.

So either doofus pre/proxy mid meets doofus live bidder, or doofus pre-bid and shenanigans (it was the pre/proxy bidder that won).

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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by Lech Stępniewski on April 01, 2024, 07:24:16 PM »
Quote from: Victor on April 01, 2024, 02:55:17 PM
This was a bidding war.

Maybe it was a war between automatic scripts / snipers? It occurred even on stock market when "AI" went mad.
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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by Victor on April 01, 2024, 02:55:17 PM »
Plus there were 62 bids, which in itself is ridiculous for this coin. This was a bidding war.
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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by six2ten on April 01, 2024, 02:23:11 PM »
I had the same thought Lech. But that still requires someone else to push the pre-bid to its maximum of course!
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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by Lech Stępniewski on April 01, 2024, 06:18:19 AM »
Probably a mistake in pre-bid. Someone wanted to bid 12,00 = 12 euros (reasonable price for this coin) and system read it as 1,200 = 1200 euros. Just a guess.
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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by six2ten on March 31, 2024, 11:09:57 PM »
Thanks for the confirmation! I saw it live and couldn't believe it go to 100 euros let alone 1200. I suspect there was a huge pre-bid as the bids ratcheted up instantly
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Late Roman Bronze coins / Re: What am I missing?!
« Last post by Victor on March 31, 2024, 03:07:00 PM »
Common and in mediocre condition.That's insane...it must have been some incredibly uninformed people in a bidding war.

a fool and his money are soon parted
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Late Roman Bronze coins / What am I missing?!
« Last post by six2ten on March 31, 2024, 02:48:19 PM »
This just realised 1200 euros, Maximinus II Antioch 71 b? Or have I missed something? :o
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Resources / Re: Recent Discoveries of Tetrarchic Hoards from Roman Britain
« Last post by Heliodromus on March 31, 2024, 11:24:00 AM »
Very hard to tell, especially since it's not even clear where the bust ends and therefore how much room is left for the tail end of the legend.

https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/167780/recordtype/artefacts
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Resources / Re: Recent Discoveries of Tetrarchic Hoards from Roman Britain
« Last post by Lech Stępniewski on March 31, 2024, 09:54:53 AM »
Quote from: Heliodromus on March 31, 2024, 08:34:31 AM
I like the way the BM handled this hoard

Agree. But it's to the shame of the BM that coins from Rauceby which are on market are nice cleaned and those on BM pages are still green, dirty and poorly readable.

And as for the "Recent Discoveries...", I checked few "unlisted variants" and sometimes this attribution is made on basis of very poor specimens. For example, PAS SUSS-FDB010 (mentioned as unlisted on p. 45) has in my opinion regular obverse legend IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, not IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG. I would like to hear your opinion.
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