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This coin was an Ex Wayne Sales Error Collection Tetricus: The brockage flan was not centered on the top die so you get a normal obverse with a half brockage effect in my opinion. But if anyone has a second explanation I can be wrong of course. (20 mm, 2.87 grams)

Here is a decent article on the subject... https://cccrh.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/ancient-brockage.pdf

Richard; Your economy is under added stress as you in the UK are such a standout for supporting Ukraine. So right now N&N might be lower BP being out of German areas or Austria, but your country the UK is really spending a whole lot to protect Europe and you folks over there might not hear that enough lately. Things can get locked up for months with the EU and Roma is extremely fast and tracks right to the door in a few days to the USA. Thanks as you take a lot of stress out of the process for people waiting for shipments.

So why do people look to acsearch to see old prices? Could it be to know what is a fair price to pay for a coin of that series? And if that is even 50% of the reason people use acsearch, for past prices, will correcting the price for buyers premium, but saying the final price paid by the buyer only, might that make people pay even more for the ancient coins of that series today? I often tell people, if you think you will want to get out of a coin someday by selling it yourself, and you don't plan on consigning it as it is not a high end coin, then check eBay advanced search for sold auctions and make sure it was an auction with actual bids you are referencing, not some high price make offer past sale, and the recent prices you see compared for coin and grade will be what you can expect to get out of the coin with if you sell it yourself. So maybe then buy the coin for a price (from wherever) you can reasonably tell your wife it is worth in case she worries about you spending all that money.

Just from a dealers perspective, I have never changed the $2 USA shipping for probably nearly 20 years and all coins start at $1 with no reserve. Are ancient coins now going higher? If so it is only the buyers pushing it up only in my world. You could potentially explain this as I have so many new buyers with the old on eBay who first wonder how ancient coins could still be around but become steady collectors in a few months. So maybe the pool of potential buyers and collectors has just increased? Truth is no matter what shipping cost, you can't have free shipping as people pay for each auction separately and the 10 inch bubble envelope and $4 shipping the dealer often pays gets too high on single auctions, and you want a number that is close to zero but enough to get people to combine wins over a few days and $2 does the trick with free for additional auctions in the same envelope. So there is nothing to gain by a dealer raising shipping and of course nothing good about having "free" shipping unless you want to carry countless envelopes to the post office each day instead of just a few. By the way, why the 10 inch x 5 inch larger envelope even for single coins? Anything smaller I had too many get lost by USPS.

In a few hundred years whatever write today may still be with the coin, pretty cool! Now I'd love to see how Emperor Augustus labeled his coins he famously had!

Al Kowsky; I do understand. Now some coins trade like bullion, Athena owl, 1/12th stater of Miletos etc. Everyone knows exactly the price range the coin is worth. You factor in the added tax for you state and bid the correct price for the coins worth. A person with no sales tax factors in the same price without a sales tax. To me the second person is bidding higher and wins the coins. Overseas is worse affected, England who I used to sell to all the time, with their 20% thing even if it is valid or not as they tell me, England is practically gone for me. They still bid but seldom win.

Al Kowsky: You write that if a person is selling online what is the difference? I charge $2 per envelope to the USA anywhere. I had a buyer last week with a coin purchase adding up to $115.27 and his invoice shows he needs to pay $117.27. I throw in the insurance free and clearly the 10 inch envelope is more than $2 to ship but I feel people bid more if I keep it at $2 forever for all coins purchased in a short span of time. And today I have a different buyer from Minnesota. There price of the coins is similar, $116.37. But their invoice says $127.28. I'll only see $118.37 in my account, eBay sends Minnesota the rest. And in return Minnesota must have better schools, better roads, and overall be a better place to live than the first buyers address. The Minnesota person comes out better with all the services the extra tax provides. Hopefully?

As for ancient collectors, I have been wondering as I send out envelopes. What state is the best to live in to buy ancient coins online? The amount of money people pay for a coin varies so much from state to state based on internet sales tax. I don't know if the VCOINS people have to do this, but eBay automatically takes out the money and I never see it except for the invoice I get a hint and it is wildly different. So top states to live in as an ancient collector?

John Conduitt; The pedigree is very impressive and I have found people really want any old documentation, especially 19th century pen and ink tags. You were very lucky to get this material and the coin for $30! I am saddened you have had so many experiences with fakes on eBay as for people like me with 20 years into the store they keep a tight leash on us, you don't get your discount in the top rated program if you don't stand in line and scan the envelope at the post office in 24 hours 98% of the time consistently, and all returns must be accepted and are automatically accepted without even contacting me actually so I hope a lot of us who use the platform at least are accepted as good places to shop. As I tell my friend Bob L often, I have customers who might have been searching for an owl necklace for their girlfriend and stumble onto my listing and start by messaging me and asking how can this ancient coin be worth so little and how do I tell what is real etc. And in a year they are often correcting me for mint-marks on my listings so I like to think we help natural ancient coin collectors find the hobby they never knew they were interested in. (I think tonight I'll list a lot of old tag pedigree coins if people find them fun...)