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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1795078, member: 19463&quot;]Highly educated people of his time knew a lot more about Classical civilizations than they do today.&nbsp; He probably had seen if not owned one. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I suspect the difference is that there are more people who want the 200 year old US items do damaged ones are easily salable.&nbsp; There are thousands of poor grade ancients that no one wanted before eBay came along.&nbsp; You only see the better ones at full service ancient dealers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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