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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3135233, member: 19463&quot;]My definition of overpriced usually goes with ancient coins desired by people who do not collect ancient coins and which are referred to by a name other than that that would describe a &#039;regular&#039; coin.&nbsp; That means a &#039;denarius of Tiberius&#039; may not be overpriced but a &#039;Tribute Penny&#039; probably is.&nbsp; A tetradrachm of Athens??? - &#039;Owl&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are exceptions to this but demand increases greatly when there is added demand from people with money to spend and no inclination to learn about such things as supply or grading who believe that all ancients are museum specimens.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A question: What is required to make a coin a &quot;Widow&#039;s Mite&quot;?&nbsp; There was a time for reasons I never understood that the term usually referred to anchor/wheel coins of Alexander Jannaeus&nbsp; who died about a century before the story related in the Bible could have taken place.&nbsp;&nbsp; Certainly many of these circulated for a long time and we have no real evidence of the most common bits of metal in use c.30AD.&nbsp; Is it OK to use the term for any small Jewish coin?&nbsp; ....even types made well after the time of the Ministry?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]800469[/ATTACH] </p><p>Yes, it is upside down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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