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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2545949, member: 57495&quot;]I wasn&#039;t collecting ancients way back then, but I&#039;ve recently been reading some old clippings from the World Coin News newspaper from around 1980-1985.&nbsp; I found the interviews they conducted at the time with dealers like Joel Malter, Jon Subak, Victor England, Dennis Kroh, Harlan Berk and others interesting to say the least.&nbsp; Reading interview after interview, many of the dealers echoed the same thoughts...</p><p><br /></p><p>- Ancients as a category being cheap compared to US coins.</p><p>- Many new collectors of ancients were refugees from US coin collecting who had grown disenchanted with the obsessive and sterile focus on grades.</p><p>- Collectors were now more focused on grade as opposed to rarity.</p><p>- When hoards of certain types come onto the market (it was the advent of the mass-market metal detector at the time), the prices of those coins may go down for awhile, but they inevitably rise again. </p><p>- If you want to get the most joy out of ancients, collect them for their beauty or their history, and not because you&#039;re thinking they&#039;ll be a good investment.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me that even as some things have changed dramatically over the course of 30 years (fixed price lists and mail auctions to eBay, Vcoins and big-time Internet auctions), some things have stayed just the same.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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