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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1872101, member: 19463&quot;]The reason coins are expensive is that there are more people seeking to buy them than there are coins being offered for sale.&nbsp; The reason Alexander&#039;s drachms are lower priced is that more people want his larger tetradrachms.&nbsp; Augustus has fewer coins overall and very few large coins so the demand load falls on his denarii.&nbsp; If he had thousands of big silvers, his small ones would sell for less.&nbsp; The large ones he does have are Provincials and do not excite as many people as do the Roman series coins.&nbsp; I know nothing about Napoleon and have no interest in having his coins so I can&#039;t say about that.&nbsp; Perhaps there is a good demand for his coins in France???&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can never win trying to make sense out of prices realized for coins.&nbsp; About the time you figure out what a coin should sell for, there will be two big dogs both go for a specific coin and make it look like the price suddenly went up 10X.&nbsp; Later, a wave a apathy seems to go over a popular issue and you see auctions going with few or no bids.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander has a thousand minor variations and there are a few people who are looking for certain items.&nbsp; When one of these hits the market, owners of the ordinary variations all think their coins should sell for more but they soon find out that there was something at play that they failed to understand.&nbsp;&nbsp; Except for the few specialists, most buyers of Alexander are like you and want a lifetime issue or even just a coin of the standard Zeus type and don&#039;t really care about details.&nbsp; Augustus has a couple really common types that go cheaply and several better ones that preform well regularly.&nbsp; Because these common/special distinctions are easy to recognize, more people are willing to pay more for the special ones.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can&#039;t just say &#039;Augustus&#039; and know what price range is appropriate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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