I cannot, for the life of me, see how "vs." can be relevant.
I understand your point, what I meant with the "VS."
part is simply a direct comparison to see if a coin of one
denomination might be more expensive in general than the coin of another
denomination if condition and realative
rarity are more or less equal.
I don;t consider the den superior to the ant or
vice versa in any way. Both are grat coins worthy of collecting. My interest lies more in whether one is more typically collected by a greater number of individuals.
As an illustrated example:
Imagine a Denarirus rated R4 in
FDC condition goes up for sale on
e-bay from a reputed dealer and at almost the same time an Ant rated R4 in
FDC condition goes up for sale from the same reputed dealer. Let's further assume all the references place both coins within +/- $5 of each other depending on the reference you looks at.
Do you think they will both sell for the same
price? Ok, now we all know that one sale doesn;t point to a trend, but imagine each buyer gets those coins and then decides they are going to change the focus of their
collection and sells them on
e-bay at the same time, and that this scenario repeats itself a few more times so that we can see a trend. Which coin will, on
average, sell for more
money?
I
had thought that the denari would simply because I assumed that more people collected denari than Ants, thus demand would be higher despite
rarity and values. I am, however, not able to prove this and am very possibly wrong.
All this to say, I enjoy owning both Denari and
Antoniniani of the same period which I collect (Severan). In my limited experience, I've been lucky in that I've often found nice Ants for better prices than denari which is likely tainting my view in all this, and I don;t pretend that my experience is even typical of all collectors of Severan silver.
Confused yet? Because I sure am!!! lol...
Anyhow thanks all thus for for indulging a relative newcommer to
FORVM