Auction 309 – Ancient Greek and Byzantine Coins
Thursday
26 September 2024
hours 12:00 (UTC +01:00)
– 23-24 September 2024 10:00am - 1:00pm and 2:00pm - 6:00pm CEST
– 25 September 2024 10:00am - 1:00pm at:
Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o at Savino & Partners a.s:
18, Máchova 838, Vinohrady
120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
The purchaser shall pay Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. an auction fee equal to 26% of the hammer price of each lot.
The auction 309 will be held on 26th September 2024 starting at 12:00 pm CEST for lot 1 - 96 and starting at 2.30 pm CEST for lot 97 - 638 at
Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o at Savino & Partners a.s:
18, Máchova 838, Vinohrady
120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
1. How to participate
You may participate in the following ways: in person at the premises where the auction will be held; by telephone; online after registering on our website www.bertolamifineart.cz or on our partner portals (see list below); by placing an absentee bid.
a. Attendance in the auction room
Unacquainted customers who have not already registered must provide a valid identity document.
b. Telephone bidding
You can place your bids during the auction by telephone, with the assistance of one of our operators. In order to take part in the telephone bidding, you must make a reservation by 10:00 am CEST of 23th September 2024, specifying the lots you wish to bid for and your telephone number. Customers who have booked this way will be called at the number they have indicated a few lots before those for which they have expressed interest.
A telephone bid reservation has the value of a written absentee bid at the starting price as indicated in the catalogue.
To book your phone bidding: fill out the appropriate form to be sent to info@bertolamifineart.cz
c. Live participation via our website or our partner portals
You can place your bids during the auction by logging on to our website www.bertolamifineart.cz or on the following partner portals:
Arsvalue
Bid Inside
Drouot
Invaluable
OneBid
d. Absentee bid
The following methods of participation are available:
- online upon registration on our website www.bertolamifineart.cz until 10:00Am CEST of 26th September 2024
- on our partner portals (BidInside, Sixbid, Numisbids, Biddr and Numis24) until 10:00am CEST of 26th September 2024
- by a written bid to be received by 10:00am CEST on 26th September 2024 to be sent to info@bertolamifineart.cz or must be delivered to our office.
The minimum bid for each lot is the starting price shown in our website.
In the event of:
- One single pre-auction bid on a lot
In the absence of bids during the auction, the lot will be awarded at the starting bid even if the sole bid received is higher (the amount of the pre-auction bid indicates the maximum bid the bidder is willing to place.
Example: Starting bid € 1,000 – Single pre-sale bid € 1,500 – Award at € 1,000
- Multiple pre-auction bids of the same amount on the same lot
If no bids are raised during the auction, the lot will be awarded to the earlier bidder.
- Multiple pre-auction bids of different amounts on the same lot
If there are no bids during the auction, the lot will be awarded to the highest bidder. The hammer price is calculated by adding to the amount of the next lowest bid an increment set out in the chart below.
Example: customer A bid € 1,200 - customer B bid € 1,800. Customer B does not win at the award price of € 1,800 but at € 1,300. In other words, the automatic increase of € 100 provided for in the chart is applied to the amount of the next lowest bid when the bids are within the € 1,000-1,999 bracket.
2. Lots Exhibition
The lots are available for viewing from 23 to 24 September 2024 from 10:00am to 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to 6:00pm CEST and 25 September 2024 from 10:00am to 1:00pm at the following address:
Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o at Savino & Partners a.s:
18, Máchova 838, Vinohrady
120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
3. Payment methods
The purchasers of the winning lots will be able to choose between the following payment options:
- credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express);
- Paypal
- Wire bank transfers may be made to Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. (please note that, in case of payment by wire transfer received from a non-European country, 10 € will be added to the invoice amount);
- cash (up to legal limit)
- for previous customers only: non-transferable bank cheque or cashier’s check in favour of Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. (please note that, in case of payment by foreign cheque, 10 € will be added to the invoice amount).
Please note: Invoices paid by cheque, cash or bank transfer are exempt from the 3.5% of administration fees.
Payment of purchased items must be made within 7 days from receipt of the invoice. If the invoice hasn’t been paid within 30 days following adjudication, will be charged a penalty of 1%/month on the amount of the unpaid invoice.
4. Buyer’s premium
The purchaser shall pay Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. an auction fee equal to 26% of the hammer price of each lot.
5. Additional costs
Shipping costs and additional customs duties are to be borne by the buyer. In the event that, due to unjustified complaints, the goods should be returned to Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o., the customs duties and shipping costs shall be incurred by the customer.
6. Description of lots
Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. is exempt from any liability with regard to descriptions and evaluations of lots in the catalogue, condition reports or any other illustrative material. Such descriptions are purely indicative and only represent a personal opinion provided by our experts.
7. Authenticity
In keeping with Bertolami Fine Art's well-established tradition, all coins offered for sale are guaranteed authentic without time limits. The risk of possible misjudgements is covered by Lloyd's Error & Omissions Insurance Policy.
Bertolami Fine Art provides, if requested, certificates of authenticity on the coins put up for sale in its auctions.
Disputes concerning the authenticity of coins must be supported by a certificate drawn up by an expert of recognised scientific authority. The certificate must detail the grounds on which the opinion of non-authenticity is based and attach the results of any diagnostic investigations carried out on the coin.
Opinions issued by grading companies have no value as valid certificates.
8. Cleaning and restoration
As is well known, it was common practice, especially in ancient times, to have classical coins (as well as ceramics and sculptures) thoroughly cleaned, the surfaces integrated and the missing parts reconstructed. In accordance with a policy of absolute transparency towards the customer, Bertolami Fine Art's experts indicate the presence and extent of any ancient or modern conservation and/or restoration work in the description of the coins offered for sale.
We will not accept any claims concerning restorations, repatination or similar interventions already indicated in the catalogue.
Clients who purchase coins with the intention of having them encapsulated at a later date are reminded that grading companies do not encapsulate significantly restored, tooled or heavily repatinated coins.
See Chart B (below) for further details on the nomenclature used to describe possible conservative and/or restorative interventions.
9. Conditions of Sale
The conditions of sale that govern the relationship between Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. and the customers taking part in our auctions are displayed in each catalogue. As these conditions are automatically accepted from the moment you participate in the auction, please read them carefully.
In the event of a discrepancy between the conditions of sale published in the printed or pdf catalogue and the version that appears in the online catalogue, the online version shall prevail.
10. Publication of auction results
The winning bids will be published by Bertolami Fine Art S.r.o. on the website www.bertolamifineart.cz, for information purposes only, within 10 days of the closing date.
CHART A
AUTOMATIC INCREMENTS
Amount bid €
Predetermined increase €
0-99
5
100-199
10
200-499
20
500-999
50
1.000-1.999
100
2.000-4.999
200
5.000-9.999
500
10.000-19.999
1.000
20.000-49.999
2.000
50.000+
5.000
CHART B
NOMENCLATURE ADOPTED FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF CONSERVATIVE AND/OR RESTORATIVE INTERVENTIONS ON COINS
Untouched:
Coin that has never undergone either cleaning or restoration.
Cleaned:
Coin that has undergone operations to remove earthy parts, oxides, encrustations and other deposits without the original patina and/or metal surface being affected.
Smoothed:
Coin that has had impurities and minor encrustations in the fields removed.
Tooled:
Coin that has undergone conservative restoration work (e.g. removal of bronze cancer) and/or reconstructive work, also following particularly aggressive ancient cleaning.
Tone:
Modern artificial toning.
Patina:
Original patina.
