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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5495254, member: 110350&quot;]I think the prices are equally jaw-dropping on CNG&#039;s new retail price list, their &quot;Winter 2021 Classical Numismatic Review&quot; that seems to have gone online last night:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Winter 2021 edition of the Classical Numismatic Review is now available for all customers. Please enjoy our premier selection of 233 quality ancient, world, and British coins. This Review features an impressive offering of rare and high-grade Ptolemaic coins, along with an excellent introductory article on collecting the coins of this famous Hellenistic kingdom by David Michaels.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A helpful article, by the way.</p><p><br /></p><p>One can view the catalog at <a href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_cnr_01-2021?fr=sYzJjNjIwNDkyNDU" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_cnr_01-2021?fr=sYzJjNjIwNDkyNDU" rel="nofollow">https://issuu.com/cngcoins/docs/cng_cnr_01-2021?fr=sYzJjNjIwNDkyNDU</a>, or see the coins online at <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_ITEM_ADD_DATE=1&amp;mm_ITEM_ADD_DATE=1&amp;dd_ITEM_ADD_DATE=7&amp;yyyy_ITEM_ADD_DATE=2021" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_ITEM_ADD_DATE=1&amp;mm_ITEM_ADD_DATE=1&amp;dd_ITEM_ADD_DATE=7&amp;yyyy_ITEM_ADD_DATE=2021" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_ITEM_ADD_DATE=1&amp;mm_ITEM_ADD_DATE=1&amp;dd_ITEM_ADD_DATE=7&amp;yyyy_ITEM_ADD_DATE=2021</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Just scrolling through what they&#039;re offering on the retail side, there&#039;s hardly anything less than about $1,000 -- a line I have yet to cross -- with the highest price the $95,000 asked for another example of the Antony &amp; Cleopatra from Antioch.</p><p><br /></p><p>The prices appear high to me even for coins I&#039;m familiar with. Among the small number of Roman Republican coins, the examples of types I already have don&#039;t seem <u>that</u> much nicer than mine, but the prices are multiples of what I paid within the last year. All of that is fine if people are willing and able to pay those prices. I&#039;m not able, never mind willing. But if I admit that if I were wealthy and spending a few thousand dollars on a coin meant nothing to me, I suppose it might be easier simply to pay these prices than to bid at an auction, or to hunt through VCoins for similar coins at retail for lower prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone interested, the CNG Coin Shop is now also offering another group of Roman coins portraying empresses and other women, the so-called &quot;Empresses Collection.&quot; See <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coins.aspx?CATEGORY_ID=6843&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coins.aspx?CATEGORY_ID=6843&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coins.aspx?CATEGORY_ID=6843&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0</a>. The coins are mostly in great condition, but are almost all too rich for my blood. Again, the prices seem a bit high to me for some of the coins. (For instance: $575 for an example, which doesn&#039;t look all that special to me, of the Faustina II SAECVLI FELICIT with the infant Commodus and his twin on the reverse.) I did buy one coin already (probably one of the two or three least expensive) but won&#039;t identify it until I receive it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, the explosion in prices in the auction sector of the ancient coin market doesn&#039;t yet seem to have carried over to most of the retail sector. Although I could name a seller or two that routinely asks prices even higher than these.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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