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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PMah, post: 4819438, member: 106045&quot;]Metal content has an influence on collecting price, but it&#039;s a bit silly in ancient coins.&nbsp; Even at today&#039;s high gold prices, say $60/gm, an Augustus aureus would have $480 worth of metal (rounding a bit).&nbsp; So, &quot;all other things being equal&quot;, an aureus should trade for merely the metal value difference over a denarius, which has the same dimensions and dies in that era.&nbsp; Which, of course,&nbsp; they don&#039;t.&nbsp; &nbsp; I recently read that the Berlin collection saved its gold ancients from the fate of its modern gold collection as the Kaiser ran short of cash in 1918, but only barely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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