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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 934619, member: 26302&quot;]Excellent thoughts on price guides of course. Of course someone cannot use them as any kind of absolute value, even relativity scales such as RIC get out of date as hoards are found. I think they are somewhat useful in gauging market rarity, meaning market desirability of an item versus its true scarcity. If for example Sears Byzantine lists a Carthage mint Justinian for 8 times the price of a Constantinople one, then barring some major hoards, you can be safe in assuming the Carthage piece has a much higher market rarity and be prepared to have to pay accordingly. If, however, the Syracuse mint is the same price in the book as Constantinople, then you would have to convince me why I should pay much for it. Its kind of like a baseline of knowledge to start from. This baseline is where the experts start and then annotate the guides with their own knowledge about market conditions.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That is what I meant about using price guides available. Start with them, and of the bunch I like Sears the best, and then build on that knowledge yourself. Then, you can progress to RIC, BMC Roman or Greek, DO, SNG Copenhagen, SNG Von Aulock, etc. just pray that you never blow as much money on a library as I have lol.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Doug, btw there is a set of BMC Greek in the electronic auctions at CNG right now, if you are interested. Also, love the photo, I use a hammer and chisel on my slabs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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