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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2810323, member: 42773&quot;]To answer your question directly: totally unpredictable. Since hybrids, and all unofficial issues comprise a tiny fraction of the coins on the market, it seems impossible (to me) to glean any trends from the sales. You might occasionally have a few collectors that chase a particular coin at auction, while others go completely unnoticed. As to which get chased and which get ignored, your guess is as good as mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently had a Geto-Dacian imitative hybrid denarius which I offered for sale here at CT, and also on eBay. It sat on the shelf for half a year because...I guess people wanted a &quot;real&quot; RR denarius? Then one day a German collector spots it on eBay and snatches it up, asking me if I had any more (I don&#039;t) because most collectors that have any are loathe to part with them, which is true.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same thing happened with a few Constantinian bronze hybrids that I offered last year. I don&#039;t think there&#039;s generally a great deal of demand for unofficial issues, despite the optimistic prices some dealers place on them, but the demand that a handful of specialists have for them is tremendous. How do you chart trends from that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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