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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3131425, member: 19463"]While I agree with TIF and JWT, I'll add that this is a question with different answers depending on the whims of the day and who is buying at any sale. There are few people who are specializing to the point that they are collecting by Price number but there are rarities in the bunch that have added demand for reasons the rest of us may not understand. There are coins of better style. There are less desirable coins but there more people looking for high grade than for any specific variation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe a lot of this is the high price of the standard reference by Martin Price:</p><p><a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/price_martin_the_coinage_in_the_name_of_alexander_the_great_and_philip_arrhidaeus/992385/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/price_martin_the_coinage_in_the_name_of_alexander_the_great_and_philip_arrhidaeus/992385/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/price_martin_the_coinage_in_the_name_of_alexander_the_great_and_philip_arrhidaeus/992385/Default.aspx</a></p><p>The price of admission to being a 'real' collector of these coins is steep. Those of us (like me) who have not bought the book, generally are satisfied with a very few coins but still may prefer one thought to be a 'lifetime' issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3131425, member: 19463"]While I agree with TIF and JWT, I'll add that this is a question with different answers depending on the whims of the day and who is buying at any sale. There are few people who are specializing to the point that they are collecting by Price number but there are rarities in the bunch that have added demand for reasons the rest of us may not understand. There are coins of better style. There are less desirable coins but there more people looking for high grade than for any specific variation. I believe a lot of this is the high price of the standard reference by Martin Price: [url]https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/charles_davis/44/product/price_martin_the_coinage_in_the_name_of_alexander_the_great_and_philip_arrhidaeus/992385/Default.aspx[/url] The price of admission to being a 'real' collector of these coins is steep. Those of us (like me) who have not bought the book, generally are satisfied with a very few coins but still may prefer one thought to be a 'lifetime' issue.[/QUOTE]
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