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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ericl, post: 95437, member: 2697&quot;]The general reason why ancients are &quot;cheap&quot; compared to later coins is that there were lots of slaves hammering them out in copper and bronze and there weren&#039;t any&nbsp; copper/bronze coins made for the millenium between 475-1475, at least not in western europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>The use of coins was limited during the middle ages and didn&#039;t fully recover &#039;till the renissance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman coppers were soooo common that they were used as ballast on ships all the way to early modern times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver and gold are something different. Some silver is affordable, but the most expensive coin ever sold was a coin of Brutus, and that, methinks is gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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