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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2099454, member: 19463&quot;]I think we also demonstrate the other fact of ancients.&nbsp; There is nowhere near the consistency of pricing with ancients as there is with moderns.&nbsp; We don&#039;t have a Red Book.&nbsp; We have a thousand times more types including some that don&#039;t get offered for sale more than once a decade.&nbsp; We have almost no collectors who are trying to fill out a set beyond the level of a type set but we have some (like me) who will own a dozen examples of something all having the same catalog number but all seeing different to a specialist.&nbsp; We may be more like US large cent collectors than like the bulk of modern enthusiasts.&nbsp; Perhaps worst is we have disagreements on which factors mean most to us.&nbsp; The coin I showed above was $4.95.&nbsp; Given its faults and appearance, I&#039;m happy to have it and the $45 change.&nbsp; It is very hard to pin down exactly what factors cause one coin to sell for more and what to sell for less.&nbsp; I posted that one because it was the same type down to the TF field letters but the two coins could hardly be more different in so many ways.&nbsp;&nbsp; Every die was an individual effort.&nbsp; Coins of the same mint can be very different looking.&nbsp; I&#039;ll post here a very different Constantine (same ruler) of different type (gate), different mint (Heraclea) and different bust type (consular).&nbsp; It also retains a lot of the original silvering (your coin was silver plated when it was new, too).&nbsp; I would say it is about a $50 item (I did not pay that much but I have had it a long time).&nbsp; Some sellers would ask twice that.&nbsp; It is hard to say when we get a bargain and when we overpay so we do both and figure it all evens out in the end.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]394560[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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