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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8182068, member: 19463&quot;]The Didius and a Manlia (same day) came from a 50 cent pickout pot of very worn/awful bronzes - mostly &#039;good emperors&#039; - at a coin shop up a few flights in downtown Indianapolis sometime in the early 1960&#039;s.&nbsp; I did not ask the owner if he knew but, then&nbsp; at least, a Didius that bad was not worth any premium.&nbsp; Didn&#039;t know or didn&#039;t bother....I don&#039;t know which.&nbsp; As I remember the seller, he would be at least 130 now so I can&#039;t ask him. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then as today, dealers had a minimum &#039;nuisance&#039; price for coins.&nbsp; Many today never have anything under $50 or $100 but there are some 10x those numbers and some less.&nbsp; Fifty cents was the minimum price in that shop and covered that coin&#039;s share of the overhead not to mention attracting kids like me to the hobby so we might buy things from the $5 dish or even the coins that were IDed.&nbsp; The most I spent for a coin before I got out of high school was $13.50 and I thought that was extravagant and foolish.&nbsp;&nbsp; If that man and a couple others of his era had told me to go away and not waste his time unless I had a twenty dollars for a gold coin, I would have taken up another hobby.&nbsp; They were not in the business solely for the purpose of extorting money from millionaire beginners (then a millionaire was considered to be wealthy). At any given moment there would be someone in the shop talking about their coins.&nbsp; Today I&#039;m not sure how much you have to be &#039;worth&#039; to be &#039;wealthy&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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