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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 7845482, member: 42034&quot;]In retrospect there were two good pieces that sold cheaply out of Heritage&#039;s Pernamubana collection and a 3rd piece, also Brazilian: top grade known for date &amp; 2nd finest for type, that sold cheaply.&nbsp; It&#039;s like looking for needles in a haystack tho.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were not cheap, small undesirable coins -- one was gold &amp; the other 2 silver and prices went up to 20K.&nbsp; I got one really good gold coin out of that sale (July?, 2021): at a very fair price too.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, we {the USA} just suffered a major military defeat in Afghanistan and understandably elites are panicking and buying up portable wealth.&nbsp; That way they&#039;ll be able to pack it up &amp; take it to Mars to escape the Earth when Elon Musk colonizes that planet.&nbsp; Expect the panic to die down in a few years.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1350366[/ATTACH]</p><p>Barsoom aka Mars, as seen from the closer of its 2 moons, Phobos.</p><p>Artist&#039;s conception</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s strange, if I look closely enough at the white space underneath your comment I can just barely imagine seeing a very washed-out Athenian Owl (archaic) there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also in another round of good news, white people are declining in the US population and I believe globally.&nbsp; While we all here have a natural kinship with people of all kinds who collect coins, this population is by far the principal buyer of:</p><p>1) Overpriced USA coins</p><p>2) Ancient coins: these are much more diversified in terms of collecting audience. Still, a hit on US coins may scare high dollar, pound sterling, euro, Swiss Franc, etc. investors into selling or not buying as many ancients as before.</p><p>3) World&nbsp; Also more diversified.&nbsp; I&#039;m a member of the SNB: the Brazilian National Numismatic Club, SP chapter.&nbsp; Some Brazilians love their coins + have dinner parties.&nbsp; Nonetheless a lot of Brazilian coins seem to end up nowadays in US hands due to the stronger $.&nbsp; Thus I expect some sort of hit on world coins eventually.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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