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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2852898, member: 19463&quot;]This category is becoming too common as prices rise and I run out of cheaper coins I want.&nbsp; All are in the 2016-2017 range. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll scare more people with the first one.&nbsp; &quot;You paid WHAT for THAT?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian AE antoninianus&nbsp; PAX AVGGG with MLXXI mintmark off flan $175 from High Ratings Low Prices (yes I did - it was on sale down from double that).&nbsp; I had been wanting one of these struck by Carausius in the name of Diocletian so I bought it. Most of you would not want it for $25 which is what I might pay for a similar looking Diocletian from another mint. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]677402[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>HR-LP did not mention the provenance of the coin.&nbsp; It has been shown here by another CT regular when he owned it.&nbsp;&nbsp; It also appeared in a CNG sale:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>232, Lot: 310.</b> Estimate $100.</p><p>Sold for $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diocletian. </b>AD 284-305. Antoninianus (25mm, 3.35 g, 6h). Londinium (London) mint. Struck under Carausius, AD 287-293. Radiate and cuirassed bust right / Pax standing left, holding branch and sceptre; S-P/[MLXXI]. RIC V 5. VF, brown patina, <span style="color: #ff0000">a bit off-center</span>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I can not explain circumstances that would allow HR-LP to sell a coin for 1/3 what it realized in a CNG sale.&nbsp; IMO the coin should sell for somewhere between CNG&#039;s estimate and what I paid.&nbsp; If you can make any sense out of coin prices, you are waaaaay ahead of me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is another example of my paying too much because I liked a coin as much as the seller at a 2017 show.&nbsp; $130 strikes me as OK to a bit much but its tone and strike appealed to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lucius Verus AR didrachm from Caesarea with Mt. Argaeus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]677415[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand I really liked this Hadrian travel series AEGYPTOS sestertius from a 2016 show at $160.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]677418[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The same dealer at the same show also provided this &#039;LIBERI&#039; denarius showing Vespasian and his two &#039;children&#039; and later emperors Titus and Domitian.&nbsp; At $150 I&#039;m not sure it was a bargain but I like Eastern mint Flavians.&nbsp; It does have the mintmark in exergue and a decent face to offset the reverse off centering.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]677420[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>An earlier show in 2016 provided this Spainish mint Augustus with magistrate names for $150.&nbsp; Cute bull!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]677424[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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