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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 677328, member: 19463&quot;]<b>My answer is a web page</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In 2001, I posted to my website a tale of three friends that attended a coin show in Baltimore and had a contest to see who could make best use of $100 to be spent on ancient coins at the show. The page turned out to be one of the favorites I posted judging from email feedback and one third of it applies to this topic. Of course the prices listed were paid in 2001 so things might be a little higher now. Also, I&#039;ll point out that the coins shown costing $6-$15 required digging through many bags of coins. At least 10,000 coins less desirable than these were left behind so these are not exactly average for what was being offered at the prices listed. The same coins would have cost more if purchased from full service dealers who offer hand holding and advice through the selection process. However, the 10 coins shown as selected by &#039;Paul&#039; did cost $99 total. If anyone finds the picture below interesting, the rest of the article including ID&#039;s of these coins and the competing selections of the other friends can be seen on my page:</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/acmshow.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/acmshow.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/acmshow.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/paul.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Let me mention also that some (not all) of the coins shown were &#039;uncleaned&#039; when purchased and &#039;Paul&#039; had to put some work into washing away centuries of dirt. The dealer provided wet wipes to customers when they were finished and that was not unappreciated. The bottom coin in the $10 section was found as it is shown and obviously cleaned way more than I would have preferred which explains why it was thrown in with the $10 stuff. I would not call it ruined but I would have prefered a lighter hand. It may look better in 50 years. I won&#039;t. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It was asked why are ancients so cheap? ....because there are 1000 times as many people out there who would rather spend their $100 on a US coin or two.&nbsp; No one cares how old, rare or interesting something is.&nbsp; All that matters is how many people are offering how much money for that particular item.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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