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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;1934 Wreath Crown, post: 3061884, member: 76965&quot;]On a more serious note, the issue I think, is not how many of a particular coin were minted, heck the Chinese are still producing them<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, but rather, how many genuine coins of a particular style/year/die have so far been unearthed/uncovered and graded as authentic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes I&#039;m aware that even the grading experts can occasionally get in wrong, that European collectors/auction houses still largely sell raw coins and that purist will not dream of putting a coin in a coffin but then guys like me, who don&#039;t know enough about ancients, prefer something that has already been verified. I&#039;ve bought very authentic looking coins from ROMA which turned out to be fake and had to be returned.....so who can one trust. Imagine if I hadn&#039;t sent them for grading, I&#039;d still be happily including them among the pride of my collection. That is why I never buy raw ancients on eBay!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>New finds can affect the value and exclusivity of ancients but that&#039;s applicable to all coins even some very rare moderns found in the wreck of a WW1 or WW2 ship or an outlaw hoard. That&#039;s a risk we all take. And if there are 3-4000 Otho denarii or 80-100 EID MARs or 50 Antony and Cleo denarii etc. etc., I&#039;m sure there are many tens of thousands of collectors who would still pay big bucks to own one of them in their collection. I know I would, if I could afford two of the three above<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure the TPGs must have records of the ancients they graded over the past years/decades, if they somehow found the resources and tabulated these, surely that information would be&nbsp; a great help to the likes of Jyrki Muona and even laymen like me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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