We each make our choices. Sure the $3000 version is nicer but my junker was $45 in 1999. Perhaps it is worth more today but not $3k.
Well, mine is only a Dupondius, it comes with an impressive pedigree, and cost me significantly less than 3K: VESPASIAN Æ Dupondius OBVERSE: IMP CAES VESP AVG P M T P COS V CENS, radiate head left REVERSE: FELICITAS PVBLICA S-C, Felicitas standing facing, head left, holding caduceus & cornucopiae Struck at Rome, 74AD 10.2g, 28mm RIC 716, (RIC [1962] 555), Cohen 152, BMC 698 Ex: J.Q. Adams
