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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7802851, member: 19463"]Pricing of these coins is really all over the place. I believe the catadc and YoloBagels coins are better than quoted here because they have facial details. Coins in the $10 bracket tend to have flat faces or other faults. The one below appealed to me for the style of the letters A and the way the flan was distorted by the hole. Otherwise I would not have paid the $5 the seller asked for it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1339995[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>How do we tell where between the $5 and $1000+ one might bring? Imagine the coins shown above by AlKowsky but with better centering and smooth edges and well as the perfect surfaces and pleasing color. Now imagine a big sale attended by two wealthy collectors both intent on owning the finest Christ portrait coin. The sky is the limit. The holed coin I showed was in a bucket of junk coins in a LCS in Dayton, Ohio, with many less appealing coins of this type that the regular patrons of the shop considered worthless. Most would not have paid $1 even for a thousand year old coin showing Christ. I suggested that the dealer pull out the Christ types and sell them identified as such in the upcoming Christmas season as 'stocking stuffers'. In that way an unsellable $1 coin might bring $10. All coins, ancients included, are priced by a complex combination of the coin, the demand and the situation of the sale. This is the hobby as we know it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7802851, member: 19463"]Pricing of these coins is really all over the place. I believe the catadc and YoloBagels coins are better than quoted here because they have facial details. Coins in the $10 bracket tend to have flat faces or other faults. The one below appealed to me for the style of the letters A and the way the flan was distorted by the hole. Otherwise I would not have paid the $5 the seller asked for it. [ATTACH=full]1339995[/ATTACH] How do we tell where between the $5 and $1000+ one might bring? Imagine the coins shown above by AlKowsky but with better centering and smooth edges and well as the perfect surfaces and pleasing color. Now imagine a big sale attended by two wealthy collectors both intent on owning the finest Christ portrait coin. The sky is the limit. The holed coin I showed was in a bucket of junk coins in a LCS in Dayton, Ohio, with many less appealing coins of this type that the regular patrons of the shop considered worthless. Most would not have paid $1 even for a thousand year old coin showing Christ. I suggested that the dealer pull out the Christ types and sell them identified as such in the upcoming Christmas season as 'stocking stuffers'. In that way an unsellable $1 coin might bring $10. All coins, ancients included, are priced by a complex combination of the coin, the demand and the situation of the sale. This is the hobby as we know it.[/QUOTE]
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