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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3017692, member: 82549"]I was curious who the dealer was, so I search VCoins. (I guessed wrong.) I was surprised to see how many coins of Fausta were listed in the $100-500 range. My guess is a lot of dealers who specialize in other areas, like Greek silver or whatever, know next to nothing about LRBs and assume coins of Fausta in VF-EF condition are much scarcer than they really are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also noticed the same dealer is selling coins like these for around $60:</p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/16/X/6/x23Q4JrrRa9M3Tk82oWHMo7f86mYFF.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/16/8/6/8ZoHLm5FM9n3Wi2S4Jezc6wEabX9f7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These prices seem reasonable. But he's asking around $360 for this coin, which is probably 4-5 times what it's worth:</p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/16/S/6/Sti4wE8pM2o9Na6LC5qzKJk32jRjK7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>So I think the dealer, or perhaps the dealer's customers, are a little confused about LRBs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 3017692, member: 82549"]I was curious who the dealer was, so I search VCoins. (I guessed wrong.) I was surprised to see how many coins of Fausta were listed in the $100-500 range. My guess is a lot of dealers who specialize in other areas, like Greek silver or whatever, know next to nothing about LRBs and assume coins of Fausta in VF-EF condition are much scarcer than they really are. I also noticed the same dealer is selling coins like these for around $60: [IMG]https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/16/X/6/x23Q4JrrRa9M3Tk82oWHMo7f86mYFF.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/16/8/6/8ZoHLm5FM9n3Wi2S4Jezc6wEabX9f7.jpg[/IMG] These prices seem reasonable. But he's asking around $360 for this coin, which is probably 4-5 times what it's worth: [IMG]https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/16/S/6/Sti4wE8pM2o9Na6LC5qzKJk32jRjK7.jpg[/IMG] So I think the dealer, or perhaps the dealer's customers, are a little confused about LRBs.[/QUOTE]
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