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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4652689, member: 19463"]Your coin is better than most 'first' ancients we see here. Of course everyone wants the better grades but there is a lot of interest in a dollar for dollar sense. My intended hobby is collecting coins I want to keep long term. I sell only mistakes and duplicates. I do suggest buying only coins that you believe will be wanted in 50 years. If you sell the coin, I hope it means you have no interest in it rather than you want to make a couple dollars on the deal. I'm not particularly interested in Seleucid coins but bought too many when they were what I considered cheap and available. It turned out they were not as cheap as I thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin is nicer than mine was. I lost interest in it and sold it. I paid $14 in 1995 (which was too much) and, as I recall, took a small loss when it sold. I decided I had too many bottle cap coins and liked the others more. Don't count on a profit. </p><p> [ATTACH=full]1148859[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148866[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148867[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4652689, member: 19463"]Your coin is better than most 'first' ancients we see here. Of course everyone wants the better grades but there is a lot of interest in a dollar for dollar sense. My intended hobby is collecting coins I want to keep long term. I sell only mistakes and duplicates. I do suggest buying only coins that you believe will be wanted in 50 years. If you sell the coin, I hope it means you have no interest in it rather than you want to make a couple dollars on the deal. I'm not particularly interested in Seleucid coins but bought too many when they were what I considered cheap and available. It turned out they were not as cheap as I thought. Your coin is nicer than mine was. I lost interest in it and sold it. I paid $14 in 1995 (which was too much) and, as I recall, took a small loss when it sold. I decided I had too many bottle cap coins and liked the others more. Don't count on a profit. [ATTACH=full]1148859[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148866[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1148867[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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