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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3068595, member: 19463&quot;]I have seen this in action.&nbsp; As a known cheapskate and person who collects Septimius Severus, I had a seller at a show refuse to sell me a coin saying he knew that he must have missed something or I would not want it.&nbsp; Just because something is rare or interesting to a specialist does not mean it will or should sell for more.&nbsp; Dealers buy coins from people, mark up the price and resell to other people.&nbsp; If a dealer pays grandma widow $10 for a late Roman bronze and puts it in his case marked Claudius $20, should he feel misused when someone buys it for his asking price?&nbsp; Does it make any difference if it was not Claudius but Marius?&nbsp; He still doubled his money.&nbsp;&nbsp; If grandma widow comes into a shop and a dealer tells her that her coin is a $10 Claudius when it is Marius, that is abuse.&nbsp; Is it my job to point out ID errors to dealers whether or not it affects the value?&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a rare coin show that I do not point out at least one error to a dealer.&nbsp; It is a rare show that I am not asked &#039;Is this denarius Alexandria?&#039;.&nbsp; I answer those questions honestly but dealers who think I will then buy the coin for more than it is worth based on my ID rarely succeed.&nbsp; There is one dealer in particular that I taught how to ID Septimius mints and now does not need to ask since now he is skilled.&nbsp; That is a win-win situation since now he knows what to buy that I will like.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I like that barbarous Anastasius and would buy it for a low grade price.&nbsp; I was not aware that such a coin is rare and desirable to specialists so I would have no reason to pay more.&nbsp; Should a specialist tell the seller that the coin is worth more?&nbsp; To me, it <i>is</i> an ugly, low grade Anastasius.&nbsp; Value is in the eye of the buyer.&nbsp; Sellers who think they set the prices need to find buyers who agree with them.&nbsp; Sooner or later they probably will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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