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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1528695, member: 24091&quot;]Was never inexpensive.&nbsp; Even then, --around 1990-- a crown costing $35 was not something considered common and inexpensive, though also not necessarily rare and valuable.&nbsp; Keep in mind a 1964 Bermuda silver crown was fetching $2 back then.&nbsp; Today there are dealers trying to get $50 for nice ones even though a Bermuda crown is still pretty common stuff.&nbsp; A typical common crown that someone would actually want or collect, say an 1875 Italy 5 Lire in EF, could be bought for less than $10.&nbsp; If you were willing to spend as much as $20 then there were literally thousands of different crowns available to collectors willing to part with that kind of dough for a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if an unusual coin from South Peru presented itself for $35 even if it was only in VF or so condition, would have been considered a fortunate find at a somewhat elevated price compared to a common crown.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen plenty of other even more common coins, especially crowns, counterfeited.&nbsp; Some of them not even made of silver like this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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