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Message:: [QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 26332002, member: 91820"]Many many times over the years types have become common - Cleopatra VII the last few years - worn examples now going for a few hundred dollars or even less where before you could not find one that cheap. . A few years ago small electrum coins from Mytilene and nearby were all over the place, the prices went way down then it stopped and prices rose. Seleucid bronzes with fake light brown patina a year or so ago were available by the hundreds - some dealers are still selling these in large lots. Small bronze coins from Troas are still available in large lots, some quite nice. it could be a coincidence but it seems like a lot of coins are coming from the mid-east now and that is where wars are being fought.  In the late ‘90’s there was war in Serbia and we had a huge influx of coins from the Balkans? Coincidence?  I recall back during the Serbian war of an errant American bomb that revealed a huge hoard of Roman denarii - this from an east European friend.  I do wonder if there is a connection. Im still waiting for the hoard of mint state sestertii to result in low prices. Some types do get more common - for some reason I see a lot of Caracalla sestertii with Securitas reverses. Why? And Diadumenian sestertii, while still very rare, are more common than years ago I think.  I have heard that Balkan double portrait bronzes used to be rare before the east European influx. I could wish for a giant hoard of Titus colosseum sestertii to be found and dispersed - little chance of that!  It would have to be both found and the government not finding out. there have been many other types that were offered then disappeared - the above is all I can think of now. But there many more.[/QUOTE]

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