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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2490646, member: 74282"]I think this is why there is such a disparity in the number of collectors of the two. Enough money and time can buy you gEF examples of most Roman Republican silver but you can't do the same when it comes to the bronze. You could build a nice collection, but I doubt even with unlimited funds one could find high grade problem-free examples of more than 10% of types, and many of the most interesting types like the 56/1 dupondius always come scrappy, so most collectors largely ignore them.</p><p><br /></p><p>One good(or bad) thing about this is that collectors of these types are few and far between and at the moment the number of collectors seems to be at a low point, so many interesting and rare examples can be bought today for less than the prices they realized in the major sales of the past like Triton I and the other Goodman sales, for instance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2490646, member: 74282"]I think this is why there is such a disparity in the number of collectors of the two. Enough money and time can buy you gEF examples of most Roman Republican silver but you can't do the same when it comes to the bronze. You could build a nice collection, but I doubt even with unlimited funds one could find high grade problem-free examples of more than 10% of types, and many of the most interesting types like the 56/1 dupondius always come scrappy, so most collectors largely ignore them. One good(or bad) thing about this is that collectors of these types are few and far between and at the moment the number of collectors seems to be at a low point, so many interesting and rare examples can be bought today for less than the prices they realized in the major sales of the past like Triton I and the other Goodman sales, for instance.[/QUOTE]
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