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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8208291, member: 19463&quot;]The question is not what we think but what you consider important.&nbsp; I have very few coins that have the mintmarks all or partly off the flan or with rough surfaces that make reading the legends difficult.&nbsp; This is worse, IMO, if the other details on the coin, style for example, are not sufficient to ID the coin completely.&nbsp; The ones I do, tend to have some extenuating circumstance like rarity or provenance (who owned the coin before I did).&nbsp; A new collector may not care or even know that there are mintmarks on the coin or that there are coins that are clear in the details.&nbsp; Ryro pointed out that there are better available for less. Unfortunately, it is equally true that there are worse being sold for higher prices both online and in stores to people who do not know or do not care.&nbsp; I have coins no better in my collection.&nbsp; One is below.&nbsp; It is not an exact match.&nbsp; I bought it in 2000 from Victor Failmezger who wrote a book on late Roman coins.&nbsp; He bought it from an auction that was selling a collection that was assembled by a German soldier (probably disabled) from WWI in Bavaria.&nbsp; Each coin was contained in a paper envelope he had handmade from envelope scraps with labels made from parts of business cards.&nbsp; I would not have bought the coin alone just for the Rome mintmark (RS) or the palm between the Victories but I considered the combination worth having and keeping all these years while I have sold off most of the coins I had in lower grades. Coins can be interesting for several reasons.&nbsp; I thought mine was worth having and still do.&nbsp; Victor had so many of them that he was selling off the less interesting, common or low grade coins for $5.&nbsp; Today that number would be a bit higher but still the provenance, the envelope and the coin together share what the coin is &#039;worth&#039;.&nbsp; I wish I had bought more but many of the coins were really ugly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you see anything especially interesting about the coins you are considering that makes them worth the price?&nbsp; If not, I agree with Ryro that you can do better. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1439250[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a picture of this coin&#039;s envelope but this is another one selected to illustrate my web page on the collection because it had part of a postage stamp on the envelope.&nbsp; A few did and that made them more interesting to me.</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html</a></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bava.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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