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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3157179, member: 44316"]I have an extensive library of old catalogs, and it being summer, I have been looking through old catalogs (especially Spink catalogs) and I can tell you there have always been "masses of the drachms available." Maybe not 20 in any given catalog, and I do not deny the ones we are noticing might be from a recent hoard, but there have always been "recent hoards." </p><p><br /></p><p>They tend to cost $50 and up because many of us think $50 is low for a type of Alexander the Great and would be glad to add still another one to our collections. I wonder what fraction of US-coin collectors would defect to the dark side if they realized they could get a genuine, legible, coin over 2000 years old of Alexander the Great in the $50-$100 range? I've been at it 47 years and still find that amazing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3157179, member: 44316"]I have an extensive library of old catalogs, and it being summer, I have been looking through old catalogs (especially Spink catalogs) and I can tell you there have always been "masses of the drachms available." Maybe not 20 in any given catalog, and I do not deny the ones we are noticing might be from a recent hoard, but there have always been "recent hoards." They tend to cost $50 and up because many of us think $50 is low for a type of Alexander the Great and would be glad to add still another one to our collections. I wonder what fraction of US-coin collectors would defect to the dark side if they realized they could get a genuine, legible, coin over 2000 years old of Alexander the Great in the $50-$100 range? I've been at it 47 years and still find that amazing![/QUOTE]
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