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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4523443, member: 110226"]That's a beautiful coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the Attica tets, Byzantine gold and the Lysimachos tetradrachm were reasonably prices, mostly because the shop owner was not terribly informed about ancients, and he was interested in making sales. His US coins had much heftier prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Attica coins sold for $150 or so, higher for nicer ones, but never more than $200. I don't recall the price for the Lysimachos coin - I should document my costs, but that would far too practical for me - so I think the price was in the neighborhood of $250 to $300. He also had Roman bronzes and denarii. I remember buying a Caligula As at a good price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now a good portion of the collection was sold in 1992, so my wife and I could buy a house. I was even able to use the collection to qualify for our loan. Life was simpler by then and houses in Cupertino were more "affordable". However, as a transplanted Midwesterner, I was taken aback by housing in California: Where are the bricks? Where's the second story? Where's the basement? You call that a house? You've got to be kidding! For how much? Are you crazy?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4523443, member: 110226"]That's a beautiful coin! Yes, the Attica tets, Byzantine gold and the Lysimachos tetradrachm were reasonably prices, mostly because the shop owner was not terribly informed about ancients, and he was interested in making sales. His US coins had much heftier prices. The Attica coins sold for $150 or so, higher for nicer ones, but never more than $200. I don't recall the price for the Lysimachos coin - I should document my costs, but that would far too practical for me - so I think the price was in the neighborhood of $250 to $300. He also had Roman bronzes and denarii. I remember buying a Caligula As at a good price. Now a good portion of the collection was sold in 1992, so my wife and I could buy a house. I was even able to use the collection to qualify for our loan. Life was simpler by then and houses in Cupertino were more "affordable". However, as a transplanted Midwesterner, I was taken aback by housing in California: Where are the bricks? Where's the second story? Where's the basement? You call that a house? You've got to be kidding! For how much? Are you crazy?[/QUOTE]
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