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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2644453, member: 56859"]Hahaha-- that's a <b>great</b> coin for $30! Dang!! Pretty funny story too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given the asking price for the <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=postumus+moneta&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplayAsList=False&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=postumus+moneta&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplayAsList=False&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False" rel="nofollow">current crop of Postumus/Moneta ants on Vcoins</a>, you found a great bargain!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have enough data in the sample size (yet), but this seems to add fuel to the observation that slabbed coins graded less than AU sell for under market value (and coins graded AU or higher sell for more than they're worth)-- that slabbed ancients are marketed to and primarily bought by collectors of moderns to who view grade as the end-all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 2644453, member: 56859"]Hahaha-- that's a [B]great[/B] coin for $30! Dang!! Pretty funny story too. Given the asking price for the [URL='https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=postumus+moneta&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplayAsList=False&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False']current crop of Postumus/Moneta ants on Vcoins[/URL], you found a great bargain! I don't have enough data in the sample size (yet), but this seems to add fuel to the observation that slabbed coins graded less than AU sell for under market value (and coins graded AU or higher sell for more than they're worth)-- that slabbed ancients are marketed to and primarily bought by collectors of moderns to who view grade as the end-all.[/QUOTE]
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