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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1919995, member: 19463&quot;]The point here is that an expensive coin need to bring something to the collection other than being expensive.&nbsp; The OP coin does that.&nbsp; Many are less successful being either just a bit better than a hundred others of their type or perhaps a gold version of a type exactly duplicated in silver.&nbsp; There are many gold staters of Alexander.&nbsp; To me, the shared die situation makes this the one to desire over one of the many others we see offered.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is where we differ.&nbsp; When I go to a museum and see a work of a &#039;name&#039; master, I expect to see the reason that master is respected not just another of his works from a lesser period.&nbsp; In terms of antiquities, we see statues sold for much more than coins even when the statue is a poor copy (some are the first century equivalents of a Velvet Elvis).&nbsp; I would rather have an interesting coin than a beautiful but otherwise boring one.&nbsp; That is simply a matter of opinion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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