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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4938429, member: 19463&quot;]As strange as it may seem the same coin in the same condition could be offered on the same day for $10 or $100.&nbsp; At a show, it might be in a $10 pick bin offered with no research, identification or other services while a table or two down the row might be a coin in a slab offered by a dealer happy to tell you why you need to buy it.&nbsp; In an auction that same coin might attract two bidders who want that particular item and fight each other for it but it could equally well be &#039;just another coin&#039; by those looking and go unsold for the start price.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sellers with $10 pickout bins might &#039;wholesale&#039; a group of fifty for $100 especially after that group was well picked over leaving coins no one wanted for $10 for no better reason than to raise money to buy another large lot from their sources.&nbsp; I have coins I paid $100 for that I would feel lucky to sell for $50 and others that I would not sell for $200 or more since I would have trouble finding another exactly like the one I have.&nbsp; Ancient coins do not have a Red Book value and are not available in rolls of identical specimens.&nbsp;&nbsp; All this makes a question about &#039;value&#039; impossible to answer simply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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