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<p>[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 7756209, member: 24754"]I started an Imperial Roman coin collection about 4 years ago. I quickly fell in love with hobby, however, after a series of unfortunate, purchase-related events, I became disgruntled and decided to give it up <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But, you know what they say, time heals all wounds! I decided to pick up where I left off while implementing some strategies to avoid the pitfalls. I had previously created a spreadsheet where I documented price, condition, variety, etc from whatever sale information that I could find for the coins that I wanted in my collection. I've been going through and updating everything with sale information from the last couple of years and, holy crap!, everything seems to be up by 50% or more. That seems like a rather large increase over only a few years <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was trying to do a bit of research as to why the price of ancients has increase, but I couldn't find anything specific. I did find some articles about the prices of collectables increasing in general, and they seemed to think that things have blown up because everybody has gotten super bored while being quarantined in their homes over the past 1+ years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you guys noticed the price hike? Am I imagining things? Are my target coins outliers? And, if the price of these coins have gone up that much, do you think it's because of the pandemic? Or is there another reason?</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a big deal, I just have to recalibrate my expectations and move forward. I just thought that it was an interesting observation and wanted to see if you guys could fill in any blanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cherd, post: 7756209, member: 24754"]I started an Imperial Roman coin collection about 4 years ago. I quickly fell in love with hobby, however, after a series of unfortunate, purchase-related events, I became disgruntled and decided to give it up :( But, you know what they say, time heals all wounds! I decided to pick up where I left off while implementing some strategies to avoid the pitfalls. I had previously created a spreadsheet where I documented price, condition, variety, etc from whatever sale information that I could find for the coins that I wanted in my collection. I've been going through and updating everything with sale information from the last couple of years and, holy crap!, everything seems to be up by 50% or more. That seems like a rather large increase over only a few years :nailbiting: I was trying to do a bit of research as to why the price of ancients has increase, but I couldn't find anything specific. I did find some articles about the prices of collectables increasing in general, and they seemed to think that things have blown up because everybody has gotten super bored while being quarantined in their homes over the past 1+ years. Have you guys noticed the price hike? Am I imagining things? Are my target coins outliers? And, if the price of these coins have gone up that much, do you think it's because of the pandemic? Or is there another reason? Not a big deal, I just have to recalibrate my expectations and move forward. I just thought that it was an interesting observation and wanted to see if you guys could fill in any blanks.[/QUOTE]
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