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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2848107, member: 19463&quot;]Anonymous folles are among the most incorrectly priced coins in the market.&nbsp; We know on all coins that condition is everything.&nbsp; When we have a facing bust as on these coins and extremely variable degrees of striking there can be similar coins selling for ten or twenty times as much as others of their type.&nbsp; Where to draw the line for the good and the bad can be hard to determine. </p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago I visited (in summer) a small coin shop in Ohio that had bought a &#039;late grandpa&#039; collection including few ancients and a lot of well worn anonymous folles.&nbsp; They were at a loss what to do with them since their customer base was made up of modern collectors. I suggested waiting until Christmas and putting them out in a dish for $10 each as stocking stuffers.&nbsp; I wonder what they did.&nbsp; I bought one that was better than most and a style of A&#039;s I liked.&nbsp; It is a large Class A2.&nbsp; The hole is old.&nbsp; It is hard to say what I paid since my bill was one price for a dozen coins I bought that day.&nbsp; I allotted it $5.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]675374[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Twenty years earlier was this similar A2 coin that was $25 from a &#039;real&#039; ancient dealer who knew it was better than coins without obverse legends but still missing face details.&nbsp; Adding that face would have made it a $100 coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; wanted it for the clear Emmanual on obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]675377[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Third is another full service dealer coin for $29 with better face (flat nose) but no Emmanuel.&nbsp; I liked the beard detail.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]675378[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, is my favorite anonymous (a smaller A3) with less detail but clearly overstruck on an as of Gordian III that was nearly 800 years old when it was overstruck.&nbsp; The as might have been a $50 coin if it had not been ruined by those pesky Byzantines.&nbsp; It has half decent detail with half Emmanuel and half face so probably would have been a $50 coin were it not for interference from that really old kid.&nbsp; Doing the (new) math we have $50+$50 = $210 to a VCoins dealer.&nbsp; I would have paid more.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have received several inquiries from people on CT and other online venues asking if I want to sell it.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is currently my favorite coin purchased in the last 50 years and I am neither a Gordian or a Byzantine specialist.&nbsp; I would like to see it go to a good home when I am finished with it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]675383[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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