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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2340778, member: 44357&quot;]Great posts, IOM. This hits the nail on the head with why price guides are impractical for ancients. I was recently discussing this with a dealer who primarily sells US coins. He referenced the fact that having a type pictured in the Red Book dramatically increases demand and a similar book should be created for ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would need to be an <b>enormous </b>book. Most non-ancient dealers don&#039;t appreciate just how many different types were minted in antiquity, and the impact of the vast differences in artistic quality. In theory, it could be possible to create a price guide in ancients for very narrow types (i.e. Tiberius Livia aurei should only require 50 individual entries or so) but for now, it&#039;s far easier to just look up comparable examples in CoinArchives/ACSearch and come to an independent conclusion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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