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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 850508, member: 19463"]Agree. Wildwinds is populated with coin sales online. Dane's spreadsheets (catbikes) try to list what there is rather than what will sell for a profit. When you buy coins like the three shown here you are buying an education that will someday enable you to buy other coins that may someday lead you to buying even better coins. If you sell these for a profit, you will be very, very lucky but you made the profit on them when you bought them and learned what they had to teach you. </p><p> </p><p>If you want advice on how to make money in ancient coins, here it is: Buy mint condition copies of limited edition <b>scholarly</b> books (not mass market popularizations) on specialized popular areas of ancient coins that are about to go out of print. Wrap them carefully but never open them for reading. Sell them right before they are made obsolete when someone else discovers that they need to be updated and no longer are worth the going rate on the used market. This guarantees you will get no education and no fun from the hobby but you can always sell out of print standard references to people actually interested in coins that were not in the hobby when the books were available. My library may worth as much as my coins but many of the books have been read to death. Mint copies would be worth more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 850508, member: 19463"]Agree. Wildwinds is populated with coin sales online. Dane's spreadsheets (catbikes) try to list what there is rather than what will sell for a profit. When you buy coins like the three shown here you are buying an education that will someday enable you to buy other coins that may someday lead you to buying even better coins. If you sell these for a profit, you will be very, very lucky but you made the profit on them when you bought them and learned what they had to teach you. If you want advice on how to make money in ancient coins, here it is: Buy mint condition copies of limited edition [B]scholarly[/B] books (not mass market popularizations) on specialized popular areas of ancient coins that are about to go out of print. Wrap them carefully but never open them for reading. Sell them right before they are made obsolete when someone else discovers that they need to be updated and no longer are worth the going rate on the used market. This guarantees you will get no education and no fun from the hobby but you can always sell out of print standard references to people actually interested in coins that were not in the hobby when the books were available. My library may worth as much as my coins but many of the books have been read to death. Mint copies would be worth more.[/QUOTE]
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