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What’s the most reliable online price guide when buying ancient coins assuming wholesale values. Any ideas? Thanks for your help in advance.
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You think there's a Greysheet for Ancients?
No, I think that’ll be impossible, but there’s gotta be some sort of guide for Roman or Greek bronze Roman or Greek silver Roman or Greek cold just something that’s all if it doesn’t exist that’s OK
Ok if you are not expecting wholesale prices then I'm sure one of the ancient's collectors here can provide some guidance. Good luck.
The most widely available "coin catalogues for ancients" are the Sear catalogues; they come in several volumes (5 for Roman, 2 for Greek, and one each for Byzantine and Roman Provincial). The prices are in British pounds, and are laughably out of date in terms of current pricing - but they are good for a "relative" guide. For example, suppose a fairly common type is listed in the catalogue for $100 (equivalent) but you're seeing them sell for $400. That means "multiply prices by 4" would be a good rule of thumb. So if a coin is listed in the book at $250, then $1000 is a reasonable price today.
It may seem somewhat cavalier, but with ancients, there really isn't anything else to go by, other than prices realised at recent auctions. And "recent auctions" might also need to be calibrated against a chronology; if the most recent sale of a certain coin type was 2017, then that price too is going to be woefully out of date.
In that regard, probably the best one-stop source for recent auction prices is www.acsearch.info .
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@sapyx Thanks!
A lot of people use auction archives, via ACSearch, for comparisons.
https://www.acsearch.info/
Edit- oho, I see @Sapyx already beat me to it.
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