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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4310795, member: 110350&quot;]The other day, in the German coins thread in the World Coins forum, I posted photos of the half-dozen German silver thalers I own from the 17th and 18th centuries, and was reminded of how much I like them.&nbsp; So I was curious as to how much coins like that are going for these days, and looked around a little bit on V-coins, MA-shops, and elsewhere.&nbsp; I was shocked at how high the prices are now for coins that all cost me under $200 when I bought them years ago.&nbsp; And many of the ones I saw for sale at very high prices are in considerably lesser condition than mine. The same is even more true of English silver crowns from before Victoria, which I also used to collect but sold them all about five years ago; it seems to be difficult now to buy one in very fine or better condition for less than $1,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>So as much as people may complain about the rise in prices in ancient coins, I am persuaded that Roman coin-types that aren&#039;t rare are still far less expensive in general, even in very fine or better condition, than world coins, let alone U.S. coins.&nbsp; My collecting focus is on the denarius and antoninianus, and you can still build a very extensive collection of very nice coins for under $200 -- in many cases under $100 -- per coin. That may be a lot compared to 10 or 20 years ago, but I still feel like a kid in a candy store looking through the available coins compared to what it feels like to look through early modern world silver coins for sale.&nbsp; Perhaps even more so given that -- unlike for mass-produced struck world coins -- ancient coins have so much individuality even within the same coin-type; it&#039;s very rare to find two that are exactly alike. </p><p><br /></p><p>And I do believe that the relatively low cost, together with the seemingly near-infinite variety of coins available, contribute to any increase in the popularity of ancient coins .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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