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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2176604, member: 57495&quot;]$9,000 was the retail value I had given the lot when I looked at the coins individually. However, I wasn&#039;t going to pay anything close to that price and doubt any dealer would have either since he would need a profit margin when he sold them. I don&#039;t see this group as appealing to many beginner collectors given the size and price of entry and imagine those with their own established collections would prefer individual coins to a purchase as broad as this one. Maybe I was just one of two fools at the table that day (and at the end of the day maybe the only one). That still does leave the question of why it was sold as a lot rather than broken up and sold individually. I don&#039;t know. The same auction had half a dozen other (significantly smaller) lots of Roman coins of excellent quality that I thought would have benefited from individual sale too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may at some point send some of these over to Sear. I wasn&#039;t joking when I said I was jealous of his certs and may finally have some coins actually worth sending.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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