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Posted 12/20/2021 8:04 pm
Prices for ancient coins, generally, have gone up 300% or more since COVID started. It's gone crazy out there. As far as using "book values" as a guide to prices, you might as well throw away the book. "Cheap ancient coins" are becoming harder to find.
With ancient coins, as a general rule, "you get what you pay for". The cheapest ancient coins you're likely to find are either:
- Uncleaned: meaning you will need to do a lot of conservation work on them to be able to even identify them - and the coin underneath the dirt might be so badly worn or damaged that identification is impossible, no matter what.
- Culls: cleaned, but not able to be readily identified beyond the basic type or period, due to wear, damage or corrosion.
- Slugs: extremely worn coins, with no visible details left on them at all.
With ancient coins, as a general rule, "you get what you pay for". The cheapest ancient coins you're likely to find are either:
- Uncleaned: meaning you will need to do a lot of conservation work on them to be able to even identify them - and the coin underneath the dirt might be so badly worn or damaged that identification is impossible, no matter what.
- Culls: cleaned, but not able to be readily identified beyond the basic type or period, due to wear, damage or corrosion.
- Slugs: extremely worn coins, with no visible details left on them at all.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
