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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2647539, member: 57495&quot;]Perhaps it&#039;s a matter of perception.&nbsp; The way I see this, if you gave away all 20 coins, there was a cost to that generosity, ie., how much it cost you to buy the whole lot.&nbsp; Similarly, if you gave away 19 of 20 coins, keeping just one, there was still a cost to the giveaways, represented by the value of those coins.&nbsp; To my mind, if you can determine distinct values for each individual coin in a lot, you can assign them proportionate costs as well.&nbsp; Whether or not you do that is of course a personal choice.&nbsp; I can see how for some collectors, this book-keeping option is not a practical necessity and probably just a waste of time, but just speaking for myself, seeing a line in my spreadsheet recording that a garden variety Tetricus I has an identical cost to a denarius of Otho from the same lot is disturbing beyond my level of tolerance.&nbsp; Of course, if we&#039;re looking at a group lot of say 50 LRBs with an average cost $5 per coin, with values all within a $5 range of each other, I probably would just go with the average cost too.&nbsp; I&#039;m not <i>that</i> anal <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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