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Chrsmat71 nailed it, the price of the coin was $25. If you like you can post the next coin chrsmat71, if not maybe someone else would like to. This is an interesting thread and I for one would like to see it continue.
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Great job echizento, Where do you guy's buy your coin's, Ar Denarius for $25, chrsmat71, good guess, if you want try a coin or two and see if we can keep this going, thanks for the guess's you guy's....  |
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United States
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This coin came from E-bay.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For the record: the coin is not a denarius but the double denarius we call an antoninianus. Postumus was one of the last rulers to issue this denomination in an alloy that could be called silver since the amount of copper added was getting ridiculous by his day. $25 is about right here. For the same money you could get a more worn earlier denarius in better silver or a later copper looking 'billon' alloy coin in better condition. That's the wonder of the common ancients: we can get something that looks decent from 1700 years ago for the same price as a 'key' date cent I spent when I was a kid.
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Good job, chrsmat71 ... and very clever strategy => wait until I cast my vote and then divide my vote in half!! (well played!!)  |
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United States
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One of my favorite emperors.   AE Sestertius ANTONINUS PIUS ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TR POT COS II STRUCK 139 AD RIC 111 546 Price will be posted on 8/30 at 8 PM PST. Edited by echizento
08/28/2012 11:18 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Are we still playing, What a beautiful coin.....  ....if we are I will guess $79... |
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United States
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I hope we are still playing, lets see how this one goes. This is one of the first coins I bought when I first started collecting ancients over 10 years ago. I probably paid too much for it back than.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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As with all of these it very much depends on the venue. If this coin were for sale on VCoins I would expect it to be in the region of $150-$180 but on ebay I would expect it to sell for $80-$100. Martin |
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hmm.... £30?
Thats *goes to google* $47.50....round to $50.
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$100 ... final answer
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United States
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United States
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Take a minute and give us a guess... ValiantKnight got a game coming up, we want you to get behind it, even if you don't collect Ancient coins, you still can guess...Thanks for the people that have..... |
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United States
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Well it doesn't look like we are going to get any more guesses so I'll just say who got it now. Nothus was right on with his guess of $45. Nothus hope you decide to post one of your coins and keep this thread going.
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