NO WAY-RUN there are to many U.S. sites that have Roman and Greek coinage to choose from. another red flag is that Franklin Mint puts these together coin with cheap coins. You should stay away from Franklin,Bradford and Danbury Exchange they pick the most popular coins that have no value and as you can see they put a brass ring around each coin to make it look better. If it was me I would stay away from them there mark-up is way to high and you can do much better spending the $3000 on Ebay or Heritage auctions for the coins you looking for and the coins you find should be graded by NGC's antiquities division. P.S. Heritage auctions usually has a weekly auction on these coins and you can find some incredible deals from them. GOOD LUCK Randy
When I was in Lost Dutchman's shop I saw a set of those same plastic circle holdered coins loose in his grab box of ancients. I was not tempted to ask a price on even one of them even though I bought 16 other coins on that visit. Realizing my status as a cheapskate and a bottom feeder, perhaps that will tell you how bad the coins used in those sets were. The packaging probably adds some to the value as a set so I'll agree with yakpoo's appraisal as what I would pay. We each here have our levels of price we expect to pay and quality we expect to receive. There are those who post here who think nothing of paying $3000 for one coin but they get really spectacular examples of common coins or passable examples of really special types. I have recently seen bags of several hundred ancients at $2 a coin but a quick look-through revealed one coin that I would have in my collection at any price and that one would not be over $4. How much is a pile of coins worth when most are below your threshold of acceptance? Are we are back to the 3000 Yen number? This set needs to sell to someone who knows nothing about ancients and believes that they must all be priceless because they are so old. It is not hard to find people who hold that opinion but relatively few of them want to buy the things.
You'll never know the real price with these packaged coins unless you look carefully. Franklin mint packaged coins can be a surprise eye opener - couple of good examples are the Chinese and Russian set. There are some relatively scarce coins in there and I've seen those two pages going for more than 100 to 800 dollars.
