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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 25567155, member: 44316&quot;]Regardless of the assuredly low amount he paid for them, he is afraid he will sell a good one for less than it is worth. Those who know little about ancients won&#039;t pay much for them (they fear they might pay too much) and won&#039;t sell them at prices experts would pay (they fear they are asking too little.) With an ignorant seller, like your local US-coin dealer, there is almost no way to win. </p><p><br /></p><p>My local dealer rarely gets ancients, but when he does it is from an estate with US coins which he bought for the US coins (usually from an executor who knows nothing about coins) and the ancients were counted in as no extra value. Anything I offer for an ancient is his profit. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you want the whole batch you might tell him you think they won&#039;t sell and you are willing to wait. Ask him to please contact you down the road when he is ready to wholesale them out. It is highly likely he will, in a few months, be wishing they were gone and wholesale them out to another dealer, maybe at a coin show. The price any dealer would pay is likely to seem very&nbsp; low to you. You might be able to say you will beat any bone fide dealer&#039;s offer.&nbsp; Or, if you only want a few, let him know you are likely to be able to beat another offer on those. Sometimes dealers sell to other dealers anyway (even for less) for the good will. Dealers deal with other dealers more often than they deal with you and the other dealer can return the favor later. </p><p><br /></p><p>It must be hard to have so many ancients coins in a local store without and easy way to pick from them at good prices. I have never had that problem in the last 40 years! Fortunately, the internet is close at hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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