FRANK ROBINSON ANCIENT COIN AUCTION 118

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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 9, February 27, 2022, Article 28

Here's the announcement for Frank Robinson's 118th sale, closing April 5, 2022. -Editor

Dealer Frank S. Robinson will conduct his 118th mail and internet auction of Ancient and Early Coins with a closing date of April 5. The sale will include 552 lots, low minimum bids, and bids to be reduced as competition permits. Robinson notes that reductions have averaged 15-20% in his recent sales. There is no buyer fee.

Highlights include several very Choice classic Athenian owl tetradrachms; a rare Elymais Tetradrachm with conjoined portraits of Kamnaskires III and Queen Anzaze; a nice VF Ephesos Bee Tetradrachm; a Choice VF+ archaic Kaulonia stater; a very rare Knidos Tridrachm with Hercules wrestling snakes; and a rare Parthian Tetradrachm of Mithradates I, Sellwood 13.2 in VF.

Among Roman coins there is an Agrippina Senior carpentum Sestertius in EF with some smoothing but a superb portrait; a Choice EF/VF Nero denarius; a Choice EF Denarius of Titus; and an AEF Allectus Quinarius.

This sale will also feature offerings from Robinson's personal collections of early Spanish and English coins, and a selection of early Chinese coins, mostly in group lots.

The auction further includes Byzantine and other early coinages, other group lots, literature, and a section of items offered at fixed prices

Robinson holds about three auctions annually, and tries to offer a broad range of material for advanced collectors as well as bargain hunters. Catalogs are free; contact Robinson at Box 8600A, Albany, NY 12208; phone/fax 518-482-2639; e-mail frank@fsrcoin.com. The full catalog is at his website, www.fsrcoin.com.

Frank has some fun with his cataloging. Here's Lot 67. -Editor

67 PARTHIA, Phraates IV, Drachm, Sell. 53.7, Mithradatkart; VF-EF, nrly centered on egg-shaped flan, minor crudeness, good for this.

N O T E : on this lot, you can bid on either the actual coin, or on a crypto NFT (Non-Fungible Token) version. For those in the Stone Age, an NFT is a digital coding of the thing, not a physical object, a data package stored on a blockchain, signifying one's ownership. Again, not an actual coin. NFTs are typically of artsy things. Coin NFTs are very rare! (A GVF brought $253, Triton 1/10.

An NFT of a similar coin sold for $412,000 in a Sotheby's auction.) Starting Bid $45 (for the coin. For the NFT, $160,000.)