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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 26717109, member: 91820&quot;]You are right but it was a number of other things as well - the shutting down of the Eastern European sellers by government, including with assistance from, foolishly, our government, the emphasis on Ebay away from being an auction site, the acceptance by buyers of ancient coins of ridiculous auction fees and opening prices in mostly euro auctions instead of starting at $1, which used to be the norm, and the end to policing of fakes on Ebay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Plus the general loss of popularity of the hobby - many dealers mentioned this in one discussion I think on this site.&nbsp; Auction prices for high grade coins may have gone up but the market is pretty well saturated I think.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also wonder about some auctions, but I have no proof whatsoever.&nbsp; I just bought a coin from a supposedly reputable auction house that turned out to be tooled to death - my fault for not noticing but I cannot even get them to respond - very discouraging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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