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Chocolate Nero
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Here is another Nero that I only added because it was just too cheap to pass up.
Has a nice chocolate brown look to it.
Nero (54 - 68 A.D.)
Billon Tetradrachm
EGYPT, Alexandria
O: NERW KLAY KAIS SEB GER, radiate head right, aegis on chest.
R: AYTO-KRA, draped bust of Alexandria right, wearing elephant skin headdress; date LIB to right.
Alexandria, Egypt. Dated Year 12 (65 - 66 A.D.)
12g
25mm
RPC 5289; Milne 238; Dattari 204; Geissen 172; Sear 2004.
Has a nice chocolate brown look to it.
Nero (54 - 68 A.D.)
Billon Tetradrachm
EGYPT, Alexandria
O: NERW KLAY KAIS SEB GER, radiate head right, aegis on chest.
R: AYTO-KRA, draped bust of Alexandria right, wearing elephant skin headdress; date LIB to right.
Alexandria, Egypt. Dated Year 12 (65 - 66 A.D.)
12g
25mm
RPC 5289; Milne 238; Dattari 204; Geissen 172; Sear 2004.
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My very first coin from Nero, way back in the mid 80s, was a Tetradrachm of Alexandria so I always have a soft spot for these.
Damn Egypt tets are going up too. Was lucky to score this for $25 shipped. So I grab them when I can.
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That's quite a score for $25!
My very first coin from Nero, way back in the mid 80s, was a Tetradrachm of Alexandria so I always have a soft spot for these.
Damn Egypt tets are going up too. Was lucky to score this for $25 shipped. So I grab them when I can.
Yes, an absolute steal at 25.
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Damn Egypt tets are going up too.
I read an article somewhere not long ago (I wish I could recall where), but anywhere ancients were being compared to oil. The suggestion that was being made was that we have reached "peak ancients" similar to the concept of "peak oil." The article argued that most of the big hoards and easy finds have been made and that the supply of new material coming into the market peaked in the 1980s or early 1990s and is now in a slow but irreversible decline while prices for nice stuff will move ever upward.
Any thoughts on that from anyone?
WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
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WNC Coins, LLC
1987-C Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
wnccoins.com
My very first coin from Nero, way back in the mid 80s, was a Tetradrachm of Alexandria so I always have a soft spot for these.
Damn Egypt tets are going up too. Was lucky to score this for $25 shipped. So I grab them when I can.
Yes, an absolute steal at 25.
Congrats on the post count.
Most other ancient collectors I have talked to seem to think it's many investors are coming in & leaving the paper investments for others. Basically the way u.s. collectors deal with.
Also a lot of the government MOU, import restrictions, are playing a big factor.
I got into ancients in 2009 and noticed a pretty big rise when you don't count inflation.
There is a reason I own so little greek silver and roman republics. I just can afford it and bargains are few, unlike imperial denarii or random tets like this OP.
I think that more coins see the light of day by more people on the other hand with people on eBay and private sites being able to buy and sell. Whether or not we peaked now is a question we can only answer in retrospect from this point forward. You would think at some point that the coins would have to be all discovered but then again they thought that all of the oil that could be recovered profitably had been found. Then technology changed and made heretofore inaccessible oil a profitable venture. So who knows? Maybe coins sitting in areas untouched because of politics or inaccessibility will have the chance to come to light when conditions change.
I have learned like Mat to not fight the market even when it means leaving collections dormant for a long period. Sometimes too much new money moves into coins making them not fun to collect on a certain budget. Thank goodness for many different coins to collect.
I do not believe new coins need to be discovered, or revealed, in order to keep the hobby alive. So, I therefore do not believe we have peaked or could ever truly peak. I believe it is more like the graph of stock market. Some days up, some down, many mini peaks and valleys. Once in a while, a spike or crash, but it keeps going because ...
- people like acquisition and collecting
- people like art
- people like history
- people like dealing and trading
- people like family heirlooms, tokens, and sentimental items
I could go on.
I see posts and threads and conversations all the time about "is the hobby dying" and such. It will never die, as long as there are civilized people on the planet.
edit to clarify: I believe prices will continue to rise and fall regardless of whether any new ancients are unearthed because that is just the nature of business. Supply and demand are variables. Even if there is never any new supply of freshly unearthed ancients, there will still be ebbing and flowing supply of coins for sale on the marketplace.
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