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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 4488470, member: 42034&quot;]I like your OP:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess this is what you&#039;re talking about?&nbsp; The<u> infamous plague dollar [taler] of 1528</u>.&nbsp; They also made a double plague thaler (same date) &amp; Goldbergs sold a choice AU specimen 2 years ago for a really choice price.&nbsp; I recall somewhere around 20 - 40 X what I paid for this taler.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://coinsandhistory.com/pix_shared/pix_cointalk/Boh_plague-thaler_1528_both_1200px.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Realistically I&#039;m in the same situation you&#039;re in.&nbsp; I have some nice collections but I&#039;m missing many of the keys to make those collections something special.&nbsp; It seems that investors and coin flippers have locked onto those items and pushed the prices through the roof.</p><p><br /></p><p>My dentist told me a story of how another dentist he knew was a coin dealer.&nbsp; In his office he set up some terminals and hired a person to buy and sell foreign coins.&nbsp; The dentist gave the hiree some sheets with guidelines on values.&nbsp; He said the person was there 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week and basically scoured on-line auctions and bought up coins which were undervalued and they reconsigned them and realized good profits*.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course this is great for people wanting to make money but now I find myself in exactly the same situation you are in.&nbsp; All the needed coins for my very varied <b>non-US </b>collections are super expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the coronavirus tend to target old people disproportionately.&nbsp; Despite the end of quarantining, there is no indication of a letup of the disease.&nbsp; Older people are disproportionately the ones with the assets to invest in expensive coins.&nbsp; Thus, I think that when this plague thing is over, you&#039;ll find it a lot lot easier to buy the pieces you&#039;re after.</p><p><br /></p><p>* There are some aspects of this story I find difficult.&nbsp; For example decent foreign coins, from ancients thru talers to modern world require such a specialist&#039;s knowledge that I can&#039;t imagine hiring someone that easily.&nbsp; Probably they were doing this to US slabs only but my dentist may have embellished this story for me as I collect ancients and select world coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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