Amen to that! :- )
Here's mine http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/39362.php Several more on ebay...
If the trend was always so clean cut and linear that would make it all easier. What conclusion do you draw when the opposite happens though? I can...
That's not a ridiculous increase in price but in supply. The price is stable, supply has increased and demand has kept pace. On the surface. In...
Don't be upset. You said it was "easily documented". Polling people isn't data, it's anecdotes. Rasiel
Here's what I have for aurei average prices: 1990-1994: $10,791.84 based on 409 sales 1995-2000: $16,893.79 (317) 2000-2005: $8,874.84 (2,892)...
Alright, show me the data. For this segment a good bellwether would be aurei. Rasiel
Tejas, you can't extrapolate from the sale of a single piece to encompass the whole of the ancient coin trade and expect to get a realistic...
I hate to play the "Debbie Downer" but there is no such explosion. Ancient coin prices are stable and have been stable for decades. And that's...
Oh come on, we're discussing the concept of rarity at large. The analogy is good imo. I used earlier the example of a 1909 S-VDB cent which has a...
"I disagree also. Rarity refers strictly to number in existence." But - for the sake of argument - we can all agree that Da Vinci paintings are...
The <$5 coins are mostly problematic because they're too worn to be id'd. Even the least interesting of Fel Temps will sell for more than that if...
I wrote an in-depth article on coin rarity which you might find of interest https://dirtyoldcoins.com/Roman-Coins-Blog/1267 Basically it comes...
[ATTACH] One of my few Roman gold coins. Picked it up for cheap thanks to the almost-hole at the top of the reverse. Rasiel
This is what my collections looks like at a glance [ATTACH] I'm only 50% of the way there and names like Constantine XI, Alexander and Mezezius...
Orange Julius what are you doing with my cat?
I think a lot of you are falling into the trap of thinking that 'how it looks like in hand' is some sort of static, visual "truth". It's often...
Furry this could have been an epic thread if you started off with Arcadius (or maybe Constantine XI going backwards!) and asking for readers to...
No Eadwig portrait penny?! Pfffft.... FAIL!! Jaw-dropping stuff, no kidding. Wish I knew who the collector was. Rasiel
$150 buys a lot of coin if you look in the right places. 3rd century ants in mint state aplenty! Rasiel
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