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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2505085, member: 74282&quot;]This is certainly possible, the Hunt brothers reportedly discussed buying &quot;the Byzantine gold&quot;(all of it) with Bruce McNall, and in the Athena funds he tried to corner the market for certain types but ultimately failed and lost a good bit of other peoples&#039; money I believe. I would be more worried about an actual hoard being found of a rare type and losing a lot of money on it. There are some famous examples, like the Cassius tripod denarii where a group of overcleaned but otherwise near mint state examples started appearing in commerce and pretty dramatically lowered the price of the type forever. The Imperatorial era bronzes of Gaius Sosius are seeing a similar effect now, where recent finds have driven the price of a previously-rare type down. I am of the opinion that there are still examples being disbursed from some recently found hoard given recent auction and retail listings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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