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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3226122, member: 19463&quot;]I would consider it a major coup of collecting if I even saw one of the coins I sold in 1974.&nbsp; The group went to Joel Malter and never showed up in his listings.&nbsp; I wonder if they went to Europe and are still in a collection there.&nbsp; Some coins much nicer than any I had get sold and resold regularly as their owners try to cash out or change interests.&nbsp; I mentioned that I sold those 150 coins in 1974 and probably have sold another 150 since then as well as having given away another similar size bunch.&nbsp; The only ones I ever see are those that went here on Coin Talk through JAZ sales.&nbsp; I don&#039;t expect to see the junk grade coins resurface but I would be interested in seeing statistics on how often most ancient coins change hands before they settle down in a long term collection rather than being dealer stock or speculator fodder.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think one of the real &#039;allures&#039; of Greek coins is the fact that there is such a range of things available in every price range.&nbsp; When we say &#039;better&#039; we might mean higher grade but if we go the other route and seek coins that are interesting even if they are small or bronze we can have quite a range of things collect.&nbsp; All Greek coins worth collecting are not tetradrachms or better.&nbsp; You can get Archaic through Roman era, tiny through massive, all metals and coins of places no one today even knows where was located.&nbsp; I&#039;m currently in the middle of reading Paul Rynearson&#039;s book <b>Collecting Ancient Greek Coins</b> someone here recommended not long ago. In Chapter 4, he points out that the US has had eight mints but about a thousand cities produced ancient &#039;Greek&#039; coins (some in what is today Greece but most spread wide across the world as they defined it).&nbsp; The timeline for &#039;Greek&#039; was twice as long as the US so far.&nbsp; Denominations varied from place to place and time to time but are not small in number.&nbsp; He makes the great truth among true statements: &quot;Remember that this collection is uniquely yours; it should be dictated by your personality.&quot;&nbsp; He was talking about Ancient Greek coins but many of us expand to include coins not so Ancient and not so Greek.&nbsp; It seems a wonder that our collections overlap as much as they do.&nbsp; I have not got to the point in the book that Paul Rynearson introduces the 25 types he considers &#039;significant&#039;.&nbsp; Cutting that number down to 25 must have been hard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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