For some reason unknown to me I received last night an 8.2 Megabyte (!) email from Mr. Mortensen , the compiler of books of Roman (and other) Coin Sales prices, this time with the subject "
WARNING Heritage mega-cheating and manipulating the bidders qva e.g. CoinArchives and Roberto Delzanno - meanwhile the law says cheating the bidders is illegal !"The rant is this time aimed at Heritage, a reliable and long-established company, of whom Mr. Mortensen writes "
Heritage keeps on cheating bidders (=loose money). AGAIN ! The false / fake / rarity statements qva Roberto Delzanno" simply because the company has not bought
his book and has apparently not spent hours and hours ploughing through CoinArchivesPro and/or
acsearch etc. counting the number of examples of various coins sold.
He also takes umbrage when a seller writes, for example, "Only 4 examples in
CoinArchives" which is a legitimate claim, by commenting in
his book (in this case): "
In case the catalogue writer from CNG in stead of Coin Archives were looking into the "Database of Auction occurrences..." he would write "A great more number of sales listed in the "Database of .....".
According to Mr Mortensen, anyone - be they a buyer or a seller - are ignorant if they do not buy
his books.
This is no way to advertise a book. Crikey, if I sent out 8 Mb spam emails to people claiming that sellers who describe Lydian coins as "unpublished" when they are actually listed in my GRPC
work, are ignorant or fraudulent, I wouldn't be able to show my cyber-self in public.