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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 25627361, member: 99456&quot;]Yes - even since I wrote the OP about 3 years ago the prices have gone up.&nbsp; For those who don&#039;t know <b>Doug&#039;s webpages</b>: I think this is the link you were recommending <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/thrace2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/thrace2.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/thrace2.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the influx was also a result of the <b>increase in on-line access</b> - this increased trade globally as online auctions and markets had a burst of access that quickly changed prices.&nbsp; Generally I think <b>coin collecting and speculation in coins</b> as an investment asset has increased in the COVID/post-COVID period. Awareness that there were interesting Roman coins issued outside of Rome is also up and more accessible with <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow"><b>RPC online</b></a>.&nbsp; The investor interest has been mostly focused on the most perfect examples - IMHO ancient coins with flaws have almost no investment value (I have some decent VF+ US Silver dollars that I bought in the 1980&#039;s - if you factor in inflation (I won&#039;t even mention opportunity cost of alternate investments) these coins are worth less than 1/2 of what I paid for them more than 40 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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