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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1952015, member: 19463&quot;]Here we disagree.&nbsp; Of all people, you know what the book is &quot;worth&quot;.&nbsp; I&#039;m not talking about value as a collectible but what is it &quot;worth&quot; to a student of ancient coins?&nbsp; Does it have information we need to know?&nbsp; Will it make the reader better in some way?&nbsp; ...or...&nbsp; is it filled with out of date information that&nbsp; makes it a novelty and nothing more?&nbsp; In this case, the information may be of interest to a student of ancient history so the book may be worth even the $185.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; I do know that the Amazon pricing machine takes nothing into account that really matters when selecting a book for information.&nbsp; For example there is one copy of the Hill book on Septimius Severus available for $99.99.&nbsp; I consider the book so bad that you will be a hundred dollars dumber if you read it so it would be a good deal only if they were to pay you to take it.&nbsp; Exaggeration?&nbsp; Maybe a little but I do believe that $9.99 is too much.&nbsp; Is this the only case of such a book being offered?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; As long as books are sold according to the actions of either ignorant machines or people with less a clue than their machines we will have the same situation we have when people are advised that any ancient coin that is that old must be a rare museum specimen and should bring hundreds even if it is a basal disk.&nbsp; I have a small pile of books that I don&#039;t want but I can&#039;t bring myself to sell with a straight face to someone who might actually want to read them.&nbsp; The local library has an annual book sale (mostly donations) where hardbacks are all $1.&nbsp; At the end of the week the price is cut in half (you pick) and then they offer paper sacks filled with books they pick for a dollar.&nbsp; I suspect there are people who buy these sacks and list the books on Amazon.&nbsp; They probably consider it a good way to make a living.&nbsp; Maybe it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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