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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1168420, member: 19409&quot;]Keep in mind that Sear&#039;s books, which are probably the closest thing to what you want, aren&#039;t really like the Red Book for US coins or any modern reference like that.&nbsp; Ancient dies were all hand made, the coins were hand struck, and they&#039;ve had to take various amounts of the elements for thousands of years.&nbsp; This means that coins vary much more widely, and things like style can greatly effect price in a way that you can&#039;t easily put into a price guide.&nbsp; In addition, this lead to a huge variety of coin types, and no price guide can effectively list every single known type.&nbsp; There are simply far too many.&nbsp; Finally, we really don&#039;t have mintage numbers for any ancient coins, so rarity is based on how many have been found, not how many were struck.&nbsp; This means that if some guy in Bulgaria goes metal detecting and digs up the right jar, a previously rare coin can become very common.&nbsp; This means that you can have rapid price fluctuation in a way that you wouldn&#039;t find in modern coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying that price guides are useless for ancients, but they are much looser guides than books made about modern coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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