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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2506137, member: 42034&quot;]I&#039;d like to respond to this topic as I&#039;m in a little bit of a similar position, having just purchased a semi-expensive British coin as well as believing coins are an exceptional way to portray history.&nbsp; I have the website coinsandhistory[dot]com and am trying to use &quot;historically significant coins&quot; to illustrate critical moments in man&#039;s story.&nbsp; Note that the earliest &quot;true coins&quot; date from the 630&#039;s to 650&#039;s BC; i.e. mid 7th century BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have to congratulate Mr. Lott on the Ed-8th sovereign and suggest that he see the movie &quot;The King&#039;s Speech&quot; which deals a lot with that era &amp; Edward VIII.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the coins on your list I&#039;ve tried unsuccessfully to buy, such as a decent Syrian tetradrachm of Anthony &amp; Cleopatra, others I&#039;ve had more luck with.&nbsp; I&#039;m not familiar with hyper-inflation (hiper-inflation is some languages) &amp; Rome&#039;s fall in the mid 5th century AD.&nbsp; Recently I&#039;ve gotten a gold tremissis of Julius Nepos (Roman issue of 474-475 AD) as I wanted to see how close to the actual Fall of the West I can get and a Romulus Augustus (476 AD) is a little pricy.</p><p><br /></p><p>While it&#039;s possible that rare coins will decrease in value I also think they&#039;re undervalued compared to other artworks.&nbsp; I&#039;m hardly objective as I have significant assets in old/rare coins.&nbsp; With the advent of the internet and good research, I think much of the stories behind old coins can come to light: enhancing their value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tho I&#039;ve posted these elsewhere, 2 of the 3 coins I got 2 weeks ago are as follows.</p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/England_Chas-I_Pnd_1642_Stks_both_low_600px.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>England, Charles I, silver 20 shillings (pound), Oxford mint, 1642</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I first saw one of these silver pounds in person while viewing lots at Goldberg&#039;s Millennium auction in &#039;08 and was impressed.&nbsp; While it&#039;s not in superb condition, I like the big clear date as well as the lack of doubling on this one.&nbsp; Now a really nice one is expensive, however, I think this is a pleasant, affordable specimen.&nbsp; Also acquaintances always are offering me Geo III or Geo IV crowns and I wanted something a little different to show off.&nbsp; I need to research the conditions leading to the issuance of these oversized things (4 thalers).</p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin I&#039;m a bit more knowledgeable about but unfortunately it was not cheap.&nbsp; I had to pay around 7x the ridiculously low estimate. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/Brazil/Bra_2000reis_1897_Stks_both_600px.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Brazil, Republic, 2000 reis, 1897 NGC-63</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I know the guidebooks say this is &quot;the common date&quot;.&nbsp; However I am &amp; have been living in Brazil for the past 3 years and am a member of the Sociedade Numismatica do Brazil.&nbsp; This is the type of the Brazilian Republic&#039;s 1st silver crown.&nbsp; NGC census lists the Lissner specimen as better (an MS-65) &amp; this is the 2nd nicest across all dates as a NGC-63.&nbsp; I DID try to buy the Lissner specimen in 2014 and had auction representation.&nbsp; They told me however that the Lissner piece wasn&#039;t as nice as the slab and advised me not to bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact just 2 weeks before getting this one out of Stack&#039;s, I ventured into Center City, amid dangerous conditions, to view a supposedly nice one of these.&nbsp; The one I found was &quot;nice&quot; but had a number of problems and I felt that one was, at best a ms-55 to 58.&nbsp; I&#039;ve run across all 3 years of these in Brazil: the 1891, 96, &amp; 97 but always with problems.&nbsp; Stacks described the lot for me over the phone before I&#039;d bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t buy USA coins as, for the rarity, I believe those are overvalued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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