It Pays to Ask your Ancient Coin Dealer if he has any World Coins..

I love that story, an 1795 cent in AG for a buck!?
I have never been that lucky. Love to see a pic of it if you have one.

It works the other way, too: A spanish world coin dealer at a major show a few years ago had one lonely tray full of of Roman Antoninians. None attributed, all priced the same. What the heck I thought, let's take a look: most were very common, but one seemed unusual to me (I also did not recognize at first). I decided to take a risk and buy it (65 euros). It turned out to be a mint state or as close as you can get to it of Hostilian, a scarce type and emperor.....that made my day.

 

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I have the coin somewhere but I don't have the ability or equipment to post photos. Yesterday at my coin club I bought a ziplock of twenty 1700s and 1800s coins for $9.50 at auction. The 1700s were a 1750 swedish and a flowing hair half cent. The balance were mainly 1870 Spain and Belgium coins. The reverse is a strong fine but the date side is pitted and corroded. It will take a very long soak to have a hope of learning the date. The starting bid was $3.25 and three of us noticed the half cent. I run a worst possible collection of US coins so it will fill a hole no matter what date it is. I rarely find a half cent for less than thirty dollars and I won't buy them at that price. I enjoyed picking US coins from the junk bins of dealers in Europe from 1974 - 1977 primarily around Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany. Good memories, thanks.

 

The key point put forward by the OP and seconded by me is that you should always ask for your wants. Every dealer has their own specialties and they will be willing to deal for things outside their wheelhouse. Knowledge is power and these out of area of interest items will give you the best buys for your money. Items in their specialty areas will be properly identified and priced correctly with few bargains available. The price for the out of area items will be based more on their costs than anything else. Frequently they have to buy it all to get what they want. The outliers will go for wholesale or less.

 

I've asked Roman coin dealers at coin shows if they have any 1500 to 1700's Italian & Sicilian coins and no luck. Roman coins are just older Italian coins after all.