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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 8490988, member: 15481&quot;]Agreed. It’s mysterious. I think we can consider some factors:</p><p><br /></p><p>- more hoards illegally smuggled from countries in the Middle East from countries that have fallen apart</p><p>- more coin hoards being discovered as the metal detector has had its triumph through Eastern Europe (late 90s/early 2000s) and on to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, etc.</p><p>- a possibly large amount of fake coin types that are so common that people don’t look twice at them</p><p>- more collectors, apparently with deeper pockets, for example a growing market in Asia</p><p>- the market is actually filled to the brim with coins…. I listened to Harlan Berk describing on their podcast that when he started collecting there were about 2-3 auctions per year, now it’s “every day”, (plus the ebays of the world)</p><p>- a larger number of dealers of ancient coins, so a larger inventory all together</p><p><br /></p><p>my 2 cents[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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