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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3580792, member: 96635&quot;]When I first started collecting I was entirely shocked how affordable ancient coins could be. My fever for ancient coins started when I was browsing on ebay and I don&#039;t remember how but I stumbled on this Alexander the great coin, with a current bid of around 8.50 dollars. I seriously thought this was fake, how can a 2300 year old coin be only 8.50 dollars? The seller had a very good 100% rating so I was like, what can I lose. I put a 15 dollars bid and I won the coin, did some research and that is how my ancient coin collection started.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the coin:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/HbiLmPn.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Alexander III the Great Bronze Coin (336 B.C. - 323 B.C) four chalkoi (hemiobol)</b></p><p><b><b>Obverse:</b></b> Head of Herakles, wearing lion skin.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, thunderbolt and club above, quiver and bow below.</p><p>4.85g; 17mm</p><p><br /></p><p>It is actually unbelievable how a piece of history is worth pretty much nothing. I guess this is because ancient coins have no intrinsic value (expect the gold coins), it has no nominal value, but it does have historical value. Therefore the market value of the coin is just based on pretty much nothing more than how much people are willing to spend on this historical value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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