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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3030027, member: 19463"]There are plenty of decently made Gallienus coins but basing your Gallienus collection on grade will make it a very unrepresentative grouping. Many of the good looking, full flan coins are from an Eastern mint (Asia, Antioch) while some of the worst coins came from times and places that made some of the more popular reverses. Poorly made coins are a characteristic not of Gallienus overall but of the mints like Rome, Milan and Siscia. You must have pretty silver coins??? Seek out coins from the first period of the joint rule when the coins actually had some silver. </p><p><br /></p><p>You will have trouble finding these Eastern coins in raggedy shape.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]754971[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]754972[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Early coins have better silver.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]754974[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This popular type usually seems to have worn or poorly done reverses but better portraits. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]754976[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Duh! Retail dealers add value to their wares by buying or sorting through a thousand coins to find the ten that their discriminating customers would be willing to buy for a premium. It is not realistic to expect any source to provide only the finest coins for only the cheapest price. There is nothing wrong with buying retail when you are a retail customer.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was a kid, there was a mom and pop grocery store run for decades by an old couple who took things off the shelf and handed them to you across the counter. They lived in the back of the store. They retired. My parents were friends with the local dairy delivery man. He told them that they changed their order one day. They previously had fifty quarts (glass bottles) of milk and not as many half pints (glass bottles) of cream delivered to the store each morning. On the day they retired, they called the dairy and changed their order to just one cream. They thought of themselves as wholesale customers so they should be serviced by the wholesale deliveryman. In those days, everyone could get a single bottle dropped off at the door each morning for a higher price but they continued to be treated as honored guests by the wholesale guy for the rest of their lives. Try that one today. There is nothing wrong with buying retail when you are a retail customer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3030027, member: 19463"]There are plenty of decently made Gallienus coins but basing your Gallienus collection on grade will make it a very unrepresentative grouping. Many of the good looking, full flan coins are from an Eastern mint (Asia, Antioch) while some of the worst coins came from times and places that made some of the more popular reverses. Poorly made coins are a characteristic not of Gallienus overall but of the mints like Rome, Milan and Siscia. You must have pretty silver coins??? Seek out coins from the first period of the joint rule when the coins actually had some silver. You will have trouble finding these Eastern coins in raggedy shape. [ATTACH=full]754971[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]754972[/ATTACH] Early coins have better silver. [ATTACH=full]754974[/ATTACH] This popular type usually seems to have worn or poorly done reverses but better portraits. [ATTACH=full]754976[/ATTACH] Duh! Retail dealers add value to their wares by buying or sorting through a thousand coins to find the ten that their discriminating customers would be willing to buy for a premium. It is not realistic to expect any source to provide only the finest coins for only the cheapest price. There is nothing wrong with buying retail when you are a retail customer. When I was a kid, there was a mom and pop grocery store run for decades by an old couple who took things off the shelf and handed them to you across the counter. They lived in the back of the store. They retired. My parents were friends with the local dairy delivery man. He told them that they changed their order one day. They previously had fifty quarts (glass bottles) of milk and not as many half pints (glass bottles) of cream delivered to the store each morning. On the day they retired, they called the dairy and changed their order to just one cream. They thought of themselves as wholesale customers so they should be serviced by the wholesale deliveryman. In those days, everyone could get a single bottle dropped off at the door each morning for a higher price but they continued to be treated as honored guests by the wholesale guy for the rest of their lives. Try that one today. There is nothing wrong with buying retail when you are a retail customer.[/QUOTE]
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