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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1402450, member: 19463&quot;]I have purchased reasonably nice coins online and at shows for $5-10 but it is not a regular thing.&nbsp; Many sellers start lots at 99 cents in the hope that people will get into bidding wars and the coin will reach a higher number.&nbsp; Starting a $20 coin at $20 runs the risk of no one bidding just not wanting to be first while seeing ten people have driven a coin from $1 to $20 can make people think they will bid just once more.&nbsp; Sometimes no one cares and a coin goes for a cheap price even though it looks like it should have gone higher.&nbsp; This sometimes depends on how a seller listed the coin or if the seller has a very low feedback from being new and not trusted by a group of regular customers.&nbsp; I have seen sellers trying to make a buck off the postage listing a cheap coin with over $5 postage which brought under $5 while the same coin listed for $10 with $3 postage might have sold as well.&nbsp; Buyers spend their money where they wish and as they wish.&nbsp; There is not necessarily a common sense answer to it all.&nbsp; I generally do better at shows simply because there is no postage and dealers spent less time and effort describing, photographing and paying eBay fees.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ancients collectors are very much a condition sensitive group.&nbsp; Perfect coins may go for 1000 times the price of slugs of the same type.&nbsp; Just being 2000 year old does not make a coin desirable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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