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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 6551629, member: 44316"]An IDE MAR aureus sold for over $3 million (Roma Auction XX Day 1, 29-10-2020, Lot 463). </p><p><a href="https://www.romanumismatics.com/221-lot-463-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-av-aureus?arr=0&auction_id=75&box_filter=0&cat_id=5&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=500000&image_filter=0&keyword=&list_type=list_view&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=100&month=&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=lot_number&view=lot_detail&year=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.romanumismatics.com/221-lot-463-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-av-aureus?arr=0&auction_id=75&box_filter=0&cat_id=5&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=500000&image_filter=0&keyword=&list_type=list_view&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=100&month=&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=lot_number&view=lot_detail&year=" rel="nofollow">https://www.romanumismatics.com/221-lot-463-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-av-aureus?arr=0&auction_id=75&box_filter=0&cat_id=5&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=500000&image_filter=0&keyword=&list_type=list_view&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=100&month=&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=lot_number&view=lot_detail&year=</a></p><p>It may be the most famous ancient-coin type. A Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $5.2 million. </p><p><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/why-are-sports-cards-so-hot-right-now.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/why-are-sports-cards-so-hot-right-now.html" rel="nofollow">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/why-are-sports-cards-so-hot-right-now.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If one of them will hold its value, which one do you think it will be?</p><p><br /></p><p>Prices are crazy all over the collectables market. Digital art, even though it can be perfectly reproduced and infinitely copied, can bring high prices. Blockchain technology is used to authenticate one particular copy as the original. How about paying $580,000 for the original of an animated flying cat?</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/learning/pop-tart-cat.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/learning/pop-tart-cat.html?searchResultPosition=2" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/learning/pop-tart-cat.html?searchResultPosition=2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Or paying $952 for an authenticated original of a Mark Cuban tweet?</p><p><br /></p><p>Unbelievable!</p><p><br /></p><p>To add coins to this thread, I can show coins like the remarkably expensive coins of Victorinus, Helena, and Herod Agrippa seen above. I'm glad I bought them long ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262764[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>4 GBP (about $6) in York in 1983, not the OP $574.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262763[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>$75, at a coin show in 2001, not 750 CHF plus juice.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262762[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>$35 on eBay in 2004, not 500 euros plus juice.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very hard to hold back and not buy when you want a coin but its price is much higher than it was a while ago. So far, recently I bought one coin for $140 when it would have been maybe $70-$80 only a year ago pre-covid. By looking very hard I have managed to buy a number of others at very good prices, not inflated at all. Yesterday's Leu had numerous interesting coins, but I resisted paying a multiple of previous prices for coins I wanted. The result was I won nothing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Collectibles markets are crazy now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 6551629, member: 44316"]An IDE MAR aureus sold for over $3 million (Roma Auction XX Day 1, 29-10-2020, Lot 463). [URL]https://www.romanumismatics.com/221-lot-463-q-servilius-caepio-m-junius-brutus-av-aureus?arr=0&auction_id=75&box_filter=0&cat_id=5&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=500000&image_filter=0&keyword=&list_type=list_view&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=100&month=&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=lot_number&view=lot_detail&year=[/URL] It may be the most famous ancient-coin type. A Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $5.2 million. [URL]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/why-are-sports-cards-so-hot-right-now.html[/URL] If one of them will hold its value, which one do you think it will be? Prices are crazy all over the collectables market. Digital art, even though it can be perfectly reproduced and infinitely copied, can bring high prices. Blockchain technology is used to authenticate one particular copy as the original. How about paying $580,000 for the original of an animated flying cat? [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/learning/pop-tart-cat.html?searchResultPosition=2[/URL] Or paying $952 for an authenticated original of a Mark Cuban tweet? Unbelievable! To add coins to this thread, I can show coins like the remarkably expensive coins of Victorinus, Helena, and Herod Agrippa seen above. I'm glad I bought them long ago. [ATTACH=full]1262764[/ATTACH] 4 GBP (about $6) in York in 1983, not the OP $574. [ATTACH=full]1262763[/ATTACH] $75, at a coin show in 2001, not 750 CHF plus juice. [ATTACH=full]1262762[/ATTACH] $35 on eBay in 2004, not 500 euros plus juice. It is very hard to hold back and not buy when you want a coin but its price is much higher than it was a while ago. So far, recently I bought one coin for $140 when it would have been maybe $70-$80 only a year ago pre-covid. By looking very hard I have managed to buy a number of others at very good prices, not inflated at all. Yesterday's Leu had numerous interesting coins, but I resisted paying a multiple of previous prices for coins I wanted. The result was I won nothing. Collectibles markets are crazy now.[/QUOTE]
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