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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 4655646, member: 97383&quot;]That&#039;s a good question with no easy answer <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I had a meeting with Ken McDevitt from CNG a week ago, &amp; the subject was brought up then. There appears to be no major hoard of 3rd century Tets from Antioch that have reached the market lately. That doesn&#039;t mean no new material is entering the market. Illegal hoards are constantly entering the market, but are they the size of the Owl hoard that&#039;s still being dispersed throughout the market? No. The interest &amp; value of 3rd century Tets from Antioch has been growing largely because of the Michel Prieur collection being dispersed internationally, &amp; many coins from Richard McAlee&#039;s collection that have been sold over the last decade. Ken did mention a large hoard of Byzantine anonymous nummi from the 10th &amp; 11th century that have been saturating the market the last few years, with many high-grade coins being available. That Byzantine hoard hasn&#039;t depressed the market at all, &amp; those high-grade coins are constantly being offered by many dealers &amp; auction houses. Doug Smith recently suggested that a huge hoard of illegal coins could be sitting in a Swiss bank vault, &amp; crazy as that seems, it may not be too far fetched <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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