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<p>[QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 8277011, member: 104741"]I once went a few dollars north of $1000.-, only once, for an irresistible Demetrios Poliorketes tetradrachm. It's by far the most I ever spent on a coin. (Usually, my comfort zone is somewhere between 50-300, everything above invariably involves a long uphill battle with reality.) When I bought this Demetrios coin I even secretly entertained the hope of receiving a year's worth of feature auctions catalogs from auction houses vying for my upmarket attention. Great ROI, right? Lovely coin, paper catalogs. Needless to say, the catalogs never materialized... Seeing the distribution of the OP's graph I'm beginning to understand why.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Still, it's a great coin and I'm happy to have it in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, bottom-feeding it is ...</p><p>But, at a lowly 19 Euro for this one last weekend, at least I'm a happy bottom-feeder:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461332[/ATTACH]</p><p>Chios. Hemidrachm.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>+1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 8277011, member: 104741"]I once went a few dollars north of $1000.-, only once, for an irresistible Demetrios Poliorketes tetradrachm. It's by far the most I ever spent on a coin. (Usually, my comfort zone is somewhere between 50-300, everything above invariably involves a long uphill battle with reality.) When I bought this Demetrios coin I even secretly entertained the hope of receiving a year's worth of feature auctions catalogs from auction houses vying for my upmarket attention. Great ROI, right? Lovely coin, paper catalogs. Needless to say, the catalogs never materialized... Seeing the distribution of the OP's graph I'm beginning to understand why.:) Still, it's a great coin and I'm happy to have it in my collection. So, bottom-feeding it is ... But, at a lowly 19 Euro for this one last weekend, at least I'm a happy bottom-feeder: [ATTACH=full]1461332[/ATTACH] Chios. Hemidrachm. +1[/QUOTE]
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