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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2592680, member: 19463&quot;]Prices:&nbsp; New collectors have a hard time adapting to the price situation with ancients.&nbsp; We have no comprehensive listings like Red Books or Greysheets.&nbsp; Every day someone will be selling a lesser example of a coin for a higher price than someone else will for a better one.&nbsp; Sometimes this is a matter of location.&nbsp; Sellers with high overhead like a storefront in London will get more for a coin than a guy in his spare room operating online.&nbsp; Otherwise rational people will pay $200 for a common $20 coin because it was last owned by a big name seller or that it is in a slab and someone told them that all coins not in slabs are fakes.&nbsp; For the most part, prices depend on how bad you want something.&nbsp; I recently paid 10x as much for a coin I wanted and got a great bargain on a coin that nobody else wanted.&nbsp; Which was the better buy? You will pay less if you study more and don&#039;t feel you must have that particular coin on that particular day.&nbsp; You choose; you pay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Grading:&nbsp; It is rare to find two ancients exactly the same in every respect.&nbsp; Some people consider lack of wear all important while others value centering, strike, surfaces, minor varieties etc. more important.&nbsp; When it comes to strike, not all weakly struck coins are weak in the same way so some people might prefer a coin with better legends or a better reverse while others care only about a portrait.&nbsp; Depending on who is selling and who is buying, price results will vary.&nbsp; You choose; you pay.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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