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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 806956, member: 19463&quot;]This thread brings up a good point about more than coins.&nbsp; Coin prices , especially ancient coin prices, always vary a lot for what seems to be the same material.&nbsp; A large city with a lot of well to do collectors can be a great place to find bargains in lower grade or common material which may be beneath the notice of many of those collectors.&nbsp; A small town hundreds of miles from the nearest competition could be a terrible place to buy those same common coins since they are all that is available (take them or leave them).&nbsp; I used to do pretty well buying lower priced offerings by fancier dealers (NFA was particularly good in this respect) because the coins I was buying were not of interest to most of the people who got their catalogs.&nbsp; Similarly one could buy the nicest coins on some low end lists for less simpley because few people receiving that mailing ever spent much on a single coin.&nbsp; I suspect that the 20 pound coins shown here will be no better than examples some of us can find locally for $20 US.&nbsp; I would think that the Internet and online sales would cause these differences to even out but I can&#039;t say I have seen much of that yet.&nbsp; Coin value is all in the eye of the collector.&nbsp; You pay what you want and leave the rest to people who disagree with your opinion.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now the bad question:&nbsp; If either of the 20 pound coins were to be taken back to the selling dealer and offered to him for sale would the offer be 5 pounds? More? Nothing at all?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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