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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4673895, member: 74282&quot;]I think of relative value in terms of opportunity cost. I have a certain monthly budget which often might allow me to buy a handful of decent bronzes or a single nice denarius. Sometimes that single nice denarius might cost multiple months&#039; budget, or might require me to sell off some Second Punic War duplicates or something. It gets more complicated if one or more of the coins involved are rarities I might not see another example of for another 5 years or a decade. I want a healthy mix of sympathetic rarities and beautiful coins in my collection, and I&#039;ve also been trying to make my collection more balanced towards the late Republic/Imperatorial period as it is currently very Second Punic War heavy. Sometimes it is really, really difficult to balance these considerations and figure out what to bid on. That said, I&#039;m actually quite happy with where I&#039;ve landed recently. In the last few months, I&#039;ve bulked up the Late Republic end of my collection, while also keeping a slow trickle of earlier rarities coming in. This has given me a nice balance of interesting and pretty coins that even non-specialists enjoy, and interesting &quot;academic&quot; coins that help fill holes in the collection and in some cases provide material for future research. The latter often aren&#039;t available in high grade so I am not as bothered settling for lesser examples of them[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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