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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2132375, member: 19463&quot;]While our little family here is quite varied in terms of budget and collecting interests, relatively few collectors of ancient coins are deeply into 4th century silver.&nbsp; They are not cheap and tend to of the same few relatively boring types.&nbsp; I have a couple siliquae that might be good to post here but have shown them in other threads you have started on the subject.&nbsp; I suspect you own more siliquae than the rest of us combined.&nbsp; Our more &#039;high end&#039; collectors tend toward the more varied or interesting earlier periods.&nbsp; I would love to have a gold coin of Constantius II because he has some nice ones with types not duplicated on the bronzes.&nbsp; Instead of one gold or a couple dozen silvers I have gathered a few hundred bronzes.&nbsp; Oddly this is not all that far from the relative values of the coins when issued.&nbsp; I wonder, on a worldwide basis, how many people really specialize in siliquae and how many are more or less like me in wanting just one or two to represent the type.&nbsp; A serious problem with ancients is that there are ten times the number of potential specialties available as there are people wanting to specialize.&nbsp; Finding people to appreciate our more special coins can be difficult.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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