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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 5309451, member: 42034"]Yes I know what you mean. Recently I've also tried to buy some USA coins which I'd given up collecting 20 years ago in order to collect certain world {like Polish talers} & Ancients. A lot of the classic US types look like they've been run over by Tiger Tanks even in MS-63 and 64 slabs. Finally I find a nice MS-62 or 63 that I like and I bid on it. I always get outbid and then find, one month later, the coin <u>always </u>reappears at auction but graded in the next higher slab at 2X or 3X the price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know the Norwegian market at all but that also makes me lose interest in a collecting field.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well the siliqua are very interesting coins and aside from the issues around the time of Galerius (late 3rd century -- not late) are not very common. The bronze of Honorius seems to follow usually the small AE3/4 pattern. Both types are quite available but are very uncommon in high grades apparently.</p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned previously my only Ancients purchase in all of 2020 was a barbarous {here Germanic} copy of a Roman aureus. The engraver deviated a bit tho and featured the 8 legged horse: Sleipnir of Nordic legend, rather than a truer copy of a standard Roman reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1224092[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="color: #5900b3">Germanic copy of a 3rd century aureus but featuring Sleipnir, the 8 legged horse of Odin, reverse. Sometime soon after ca. 270 AD.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 5309451, member: 42034"]Yes I know what you mean. Recently I've also tried to buy some USA coins which I'd given up collecting 20 years ago in order to collect certain world {like Polish talers} & Ancients. A lot of the classic US types look like they've been run over by Tiger Tanks even in MS-63 and 64 slabs. Finally I find a nice MS-62 or 63 that I like and I bid on it. I always get outbid and then find, one month later, the coin [U]always [/U]reappears at auction but graded in the next higher slab at 2X or 3X the price. I don't know the Norwegian market at all but that also makes me lose interest in a collecting field. Well the siliqua are very interesting coins and aside from the issues around the time of Galerius (late 3rd century -- not late) are not very common. The bronze of Honorius seems to follow usually the small AE3/4 pattern. Both types are quite available but are very uncommon in high grades apparently. As mentioned previously my only Ancients purchase in all of 2020 was a barbarous {here Germanic} copy of a Roman aureus. The engraver deviated a bit tho and featured the 8 legged horse: Sleipnir of Nordic legend, rather than a truer copy of a standard Roman reverse. [ATTACH=full]1224092[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#5900b3]Germanic copy of a 3rd century aureus but featuring Sleipnir, the 8 legged horse of Odin, reverse. Sometime soon after ca. 270 AD.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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