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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2464805, member: 19463&quot;]Cheap is a matter of &#039;price&#039; but what matters is &#039;value&#039;.&nbsp; These three are fine examples of what they are.&nbsp; There are two different denominations from two different periods and two different rulers but every detail is present allowing the recipient to learn and, therefore, derive great value from the coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The problem with giving away coins is finding recipients who don&#039;t consider themselves too good for the common and less than perfect specimens we might have to give.&nbsp; These are nice coins I would be happy to have in my collection (in fact, I do have very similar ones). </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a number of coins for which I paid under $10.&nbsp; Of them, the best were the ones given to me by people who knew I would appreciate them when few people would.&nbsp; Inflation has doubled prices in recent decades but my image from my 2001 page shows coins bought at a Baltimore show one day.&nbsp; Today they might be double???&nbsp; Of course that same day there were other sellers asking several times as much for worse coins.&nbsp; You have to shop. Cheap coins are only ugly if you choose to define them as such.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/paul.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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