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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 8275701, member: 15481&quot;]I think it depends a lot on what you are looking to buy. I can often get a coin cheaper at aution than at a dealer, but those coins are usually not top tier quality or rarity. Those coins go for extreme prices at auctions nowadays, and I guess those are the coins you [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER] are looking for?</p><p><br /></p><p>A somewhat disrupting trend has occured the recent years, however: Common coins like Corinthia staters and Thessaly drachms go 3-4 times over what I consider fair value. And Macedonian tets and Lysimachos tets sell really good too. It seems there are quite a lot of new buyers who want to fill a list of «100greatest ancient coins» or something. I noticed on the Roma auction that there were a lot of bids coming from China. I personally hope this trend wears off, but if there is a growing interest for ancient coins around the world, we may not be as spoiled in the future as we have been in the past, with respect to being able to buy 2000 year old coins in EF for lunch money....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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