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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 7897015, member: 97383&quot;]roman, I think you made a good buy for the money <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Prices for even the most common Byzantine gold coins have been escalating the last couple of years. The coin pictured below (the same type &amp; officina as the coin Doug posted) cost me $660.00 about 2 1/2 years ago. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Five days ago the coin pictured below sold at a Heritage auction for $1,140.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363642[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363647[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the gold coinage of Phocas is very crude <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie88" alt=":sour:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. There was a vast improvement in quality by the succeeding emperor Heraclius, as the coin below shows <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363649[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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