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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26620967, member: 91820&quot;]I can check - I think it was the early teens - he said he lost his supply.&nbsp; He had a shop in Florida. Some of the coins he had were stunning - you could buy a perfect Balbinus or Pupineus (sp?) antoninianus for under $300.&nbsp; Of course I could not afford it then but I did buy many coins from him - most were later sold as my collecting interest went elsewhere.&nbsp; But between him and the other Eastern European sellers ebay was rocking.&nbsp; Even CNG sold coins on ebay at one time.&nbsp; Then the eastern European supply dried up, ebay stopped policing ancients, and many of the collectors also seemed to fade away.&nbsp; I have no doubt that there are only a fraction of the number of collectors as in the oughts - even with the internet widening the ability to buy coins.&nbsp; It was quite exciting back then....but by 2010 it was really over - at least according to my perception of what was going on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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