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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4512134, member: 110350&quot;]I hope you aren&#039;t being sarcastic, because I&#039;m glad about it too.&nbsp; I just read through this thread for the first time, and I don&#039;t think anyone has been remotely &quot;vicious&quot; to you.&nbsp; You have to admit that yours was an unusual question, and reflects a rather unusual situation -- after all, you&#039;re not simply a new collector of ancient coins asking for advice, but a dealer of some kind.&nbsp; Therefore, people were certainly justified in asking skeptical questions, at least until you explained that the person you initially presented as a mere &quot;buyer&quot; is actually your &quot;best friend&quot; who specifically wants <u>you</u> to make the choice for him, rather than simply directing him to VCoins or some other online market.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless of how you want to characterize the responses you&#039;ve gotten, I think that by now you should have figured out that there&#039;s no simple way to find what you want (a quarter-sized ancient silver coin for which you can charge your friend $100-$150 and still make a profit), given that anything you find in that size for that price (a) isn&#039;t likely to be anything close to pure silver, and/or (b) isn&#039;t going to be in great condition. For example, you can get a nice 3rd century antoninianus for a lot &lt; $150, but most are 21-23 mm. (a quarter is about 25 mm., right?), and even though they might look like silver, even the early ones were debased to a level of less than 50% silver fineness, declining to around 5% or less within a few decades.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re willing to compromise on the size or the price, you&#039;ll have a great many more options. Perhaps people are frustrated that you seemingly haven&#039;t fully grasped that reality?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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