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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2128560, member: 19463&quot;]This is Claudius II with Annona reverse.&nbsp; This one has a chippy edge which would reduce its market value.&nbsp; Condition and eye appeal mean a lot with ancient coins so there is not a large demand for low end coins of common rulers.&nbsp; This is far from the worst I have seen but not the sort of coin that starts fights at sales.&nbsp; Values are largely opinions since there are no &#039;Red Books&#039; for all varieties of ancients.&nbsp; You can compare what a similar coin brought at a sale listed online but you will never find one exactly like yours and you will never find exactly the set of buyers that showed up for that sale so your coin could bring half or double any price you see without there being anything odd.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d not trust any site that proposes to give prices your coins should bring.&nbsp; There are just too many variables.&nbsp; You might enjoy David Vagi&#039;s book Coinage and History of the Roman Empire where (vol. 2 page 451) he lumps together common coins of this emperor in&nbsp; VF condition at $5-15 in 1999.&nbsp; Your coin is not good enough to be VF and this is not 1999.&nbsp; Someone would pay $5 for it.&nbsp; $15???&nbsp; Vagi lists separate (higher) prices for rare or desirable types but does not try to list all the ordinary types.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Compare:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=claudius+annona&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=claudius+annona&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=claudius+annona&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0&amp;company=</a></p><p>Name sales and sellers get more for their coins than the rest of us.&nbsp; Notice how terribly varied all these coins are both in condition and price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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