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MILLION DOLLAR ANCIENT COINSOn February 21, 2018 Mike Markowitz published a CoinWeek Ancient Coins Series article on Million Dollar Ancients (and a Few That Come Close). See the complete
article online - it's quite a lineup of fabulous coins. Here's an excerpt. -Editor
The most spectacular ancient coins are often sold by “private treaty” without an accessible record. But for public auctions, it is still unusual for an ancient coins or medieval coins to exceed a price of one million US dollars (£715,389 UK pounds or €805,289 euro at the time of writing). It gets complicated, because reported prices may or may not include the 15% to 22.5% “buyer’s fee” auction houses add to winning bids. In contrast, classic collectible rare US coins so often bring prices over a million dollars now that it hardly rates notice in the trade media. The record holder for an ancient Greek coin is the facing portrait gold stater of Pantikapaion, which brought $3,250,000 in a 2012 New York auction.  To read the complete article, see:  Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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