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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1787790, member: 24544&quot;]So, I am in the process of getting into ancients, in particular the Roman imperial coinage.&nbsp; I have looked through some PDFs of books and have downloaded ERIC I, but I still have some questions, specifically about rarity of issues and price.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Is there a resource which goes over rarity of specific issues or is this information something you acquire after looking over coins? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Secondly, is there any type of price guide or rule of thumb for these or again is it just studying auction catalogs and familiarity with the market?&nbsp; Here is a specific example, a local dealer has these two Hadrian coins for sale:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?50578" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?50578" rel="nofollow">http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?50578</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?50323" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?50323" rel="nofollow">http://www.coin.com/cgi-local/find1Coins.cgi?50323</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>What accounts for the large difference in price, is it condition, rarity, or a combination of both?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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