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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2439736, member: 19463&quot;]One thing Bruce McNall was able to do was to talk to people who did not have to ask prices.&nbsp; His book talks about buyers who never even took possession of the coins but just left them with him. </p><p><br /></p><p>People differ.&nbsp; I left the gym today, bent over and picked up 23 cents someone dropped in the parking lot.&nbsp; The guy that dropped it probably was too tired to bother.&nbsp; I have known a few people to whom $1600 has about the same proportion to their net worth that 23 cents has to this pensioner.&nbsp;&nbsp; Remember when the Sheikh was butting heads with the Internet magnate a few years back?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>We need to get over the concept that there is a single number that describes what a coin is worth.&nbsp; Depending on who cares, who bids and who needs cash (and needs it now), $1600 and $600 are the same number.&nbsp;&nbsp; Any given salesday...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Does it not bother anyone that this coin has a flat spot on the shield from the dent on the amphora that no dealer felt the need to mention?&nbsp; I think this is a lovely coin and I would love to have it but I can see some buyer seeing this as damage and not bidding.&nbsp; The difference between one interested bidder and two can be thousands. Am I wrong?&nbsp; Is there a die dupe that will show whether that dent is damage or design?&nbsp;&nbsp; What made that dent?&nbsp; Lets describe it as a tooth mark and sell it to a dentist. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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