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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 3183852, member: 44357&quot;]Everyone in the auction room during this sale was aghast at the prices. There is clear bifurcation in the market: people who know what coins &quot;should&quot; cost and people who have untold amounts of money to burn and will pay whatever it takes to say &quot;I own this&quot; without knowing thousands of other near-identical examples exist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paying whatever it takes is appropriate for some coins which represent truly unique opportunities but these are few and far between. Athens tetradrachms are most certainly <i>not </i>one of these opportunities.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really hope these buyers won&#039;t end up resenting the coins they&#039;ve purchased and that they do end up developing a true interest in what they&#039;re buying, not just trying to upgrade coins in higher graded holders or squabbling about 4/5 vs 5/5. That&#039;s one of the facets of US collecting that drove me away and it would be a shame for it to ruin an otherwise wonderful hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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