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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2945801, member: 19463&quot;]Let&#039;s be clear on this one point.&nbsp; Just because a coin is very interesting does not mean it will sell for a high price.&nbsp; I have quite a number of unofficial, barbarous or just plain strange coins but most of them cost relatively little because the mainstream condition centered, catalog numbering collectors usually avoid them.&nbsp; I don&#039;t expect to know much about these coins with any certainty but I do find their existence interesting and would love to know more about the part they played in the economy of their time and place.&nbsp; Was Isiusiisiuisii repeatedly exchanged in commerce for goods and services?&nbsp; Did the people who saw it care it was different from official coins or had they even seen more than a few official issues in their little corner of the world?&nbsp; Was the coin made because coinage was needed or to extort profit from ignorant consumers.&nbsp; Was the coin made in the 2nd century (is that Lucius Verus?) or in the 20th to fool fools like me?&nbsp; We lack the resources to do proper studies of the official coinage so I do not expect great universities to support studies of what may well be unstudyable in the traditional way but that does not keep Isiusiisiuisii and his friends from being a part of my hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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