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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2224414, member: 42034&quot;]Trying to predict the future is very difficult.&nbsp; I recently bid on a Roman solidus of my first name &quot;John&quot; (act. Johannes) which previously sold about 8 years ago at auction.&nbsp; The piece resold just this Spring and brought almost exactly 4X the 2007 price!&nbsp; Of course stuff in NAC is always super expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I bought a Brazilian Colonial copper coin of which I liked the history.&nbsp; Despite the fact that Brazil is entering a major recession, I was forced to pay 9X the price one of these sold for (same MS grade) in the Irving Goldman collection in &#039;02 -- and that one had a pedigree!&nbsp; Still a Stack&#039;s piece sold for about the same as mine in 2012 so there was no great increase since then.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many world coins are quite rare compared to US coins which I feel are horribly overpriced.&nbsp; Actually many better US coins have seemed to hit a plateau pricewise.&nbsp; I would love to hear GDJMSP&#039;s thinking on why world coins are due for a decrease. I always say to myself &quot;no more high quality rare world coins&quot;, I&#039;m just going to buy scrap silver half dollars instead.&nbsp; Then I run into a nice unc 1844 Montevideo Peso; a very neat &amp; historically important coin of South America &amp; I just can&#039;t say &quot;no&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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