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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2105520, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ll point out that 20 years ago I did not collect late Roman at all and publicized things I then found interesting like the Eastern Septimius denarii which very few people then collected.&nbsp; After about 5 years, the competition picked up and I was no longer able to afford the Severans I wanted.&nbsp; About that time I did the photos for the Failmezger book and started buying things it included.&nbsp; That has continued as a pattern now with it getting hard to find a specialty that I can afford.&nbsp; There even was a run here on some of the medieval Asian silver that no one would pay $5 for a decade ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; Perhaps the correct answer is to just tell everyone that coins are boring and they should only buy shiny bullion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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