You can have any one ancient coin but...

You must giveaway the rest of your collection..with no financial profits. After that you get any one ancient coin you could ever desire! But you can't sell that one coin. Would you? Why or Why not.

 

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Depends... on if I can then sell that one dream coin.

If I could sell that one dream coin, yes... I'd take it, sell it, then I'd buy my collection back and a mountain of other coins.

If I can't sell that one coin. Then no, any one coin is not as interesting as my pile of less than perfect coins.

 

Exactly... I would gladly exchange my collected for a mint Eid Mar... actually it doesn't have to be mint... ...but I don't think I would find a taker... more likely a faker!

 

No, I prefer the varied panorama of my collection of rather different coins to one only, even if it were the most beautiful and interesting that I can imagine.

 

Exactly!

 

I suppose I wouldn’t, because I could sell my collection now and buy my dream coin (assuming it comes up again) and I haven’t done that yet! But posed as a direct question you’ve got me thinking...

We could continue to collect after the deal, right?

 

Maybe for a dozen dream coins but not one.

Variety is part of the appeal of collecting.

John

 

I dunno . . .an Athenian decadrachm--42+ grams of silver--would be pretty cool to hold in your hand and admire. I think I might trade my collection for one of those.

 

No way, because a single coin is not a collection!

 

No!
One only coin (even if it’s the dream coin), is not a collection. It’s only a coin.

 

I couldn't live with just one coin.

Be it a question of life or death I could let go my entire collection appart from my grand father's Commodus sestertius, hence keeping just one, but that's not the subject of the topic.
Otherwise, there's no coin I dream so much about that I could forget all the others

Q

 

For my collection, this would not happen.

The premise of “one” coin is that the person would collect as a numismatist or an investor. I am neither. I collect History. Ergo, like @Pellinore and @Bing , and even @Theodosius wanting at least a dozen, I like the BREADTH of my collection, spanning many Historical events, achievements, or people in Human History.

I am not really concerned about the perfect coin, rather, I enjoy holding placemarkers (“just a nit”), in History. In fact, although many of my coins may not be pristine to “coin collectors”, I already HAVE many of my “perfect” or “dream” coins! However, I hope to capture many MORE “dream” coins.

I approach this as a Hobby, ergo it is not acquiring the one “dream” coin as an End, rather it is my Journey to enjoy capturing a myriad if “dream” coins that represent History.

 

You asked me too late. Had I had the chance when I bought my first lot of 20 ancient coins (for a measly $130) I would have jumped at the chance!

Now, there are too many coins in my collection I consider irreplaceable.

 

I wouldn't for the many reasons others have already stated.

 

No I wouldn't trade my coins for any single coin. I see them all as historically interrelated. One can follow the ebbs and flows of the Empire (socially, economically, historically) through coins, which is a great thing. If I had just one dream coin it would be a snapshot in time and not representative of the sweep of history.

 

No. Every coin conjures up many thoughts, emotions, the beauty or lack of it, and questions. Maybe even some lust and greed.

And, how can you roll like Scrooge McDuck in a pile of one coin?........

 

I certainly wouldn't trade my collection for a single coin. With my collecting focus the individual coins are less important than the series as a whole. I see them almost like pieces in a puzzle and a single piece of a 2,000+ piece puzzle, while it may be the single most beautiful or interesting piece of the puzzle, is still only a single piece of the puzzle.

 

Is this a religious question?


I would consider it for one of these:

1. MONNAIES ROMAINES; T. Quinctius Flamininus
   Statère d'or - Chalcis (c. 196 av. J.-C.)
   A rare rarity and the best style from the NB Hunt Sotheby's (New York) Selling Collection of June 19 and 20, 1990, No. 111.
   This coin sold in 2018 for a mear $600,000 at the Maison Palombo auction 17, lot 25.
   
   
2. A "real" one of these in EF, well struck, centered, etc.

EID.MAR Denarius
Contemporary Forgery of Cr 508/3
43 – 42 BC, Traveling mint in northern Greece

I note that you did not say I had to sell my books.

 

I wouldn't sell all of my coins for a single coin but I possibly would sell a chunk of my collection for the right coin if I needed to do so. @rrdenarius ' post is appropriate as I was considering selling some more replaceable pieces for that exact Flamininus stater. I ended up deciding to not bid but it is one of just a few types for which I'd consider a culling (outside of the periodic "spring cleaning" I do of duplicates).

Regardless of your budget, every coin purchase has an opportunity cost. There have been many times where I become frustrated at being outbid during a major auction and days later find a coin that I couldn't have afforded if I were successful in the auction.

Ultimately I've realized that I can't just sit on the sidelines until some major, important coin comes up for sale. There are too many great coins being sold all the time and I'd kick myself if I let them all slip by. But, the "smaller" purchases do add up and I am consciously balancing quantity and quality in the lens of a finite budget.

 

I would not.....
If, I sold my collection....I could get a in return one of my dream coins (a mint state Transylvania 1683 100 Dukaten Michal Apafi) =close to 3.5 million euros.
However, if I could obtain 100 mint state Roman Aurei (YES) But, I would still be sad to loose 800 + nice AV coins
Then, I would just concentrate on aurei.
John