Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide

Kinzer Ancient Coin Value Guide

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Otho · Observed / Range

Source location: Book 5, Chapter 2, PDF p. 13, Pricing Schedule

Certified / slabbed evidence

Recent certified and high-grade market examples span from roughly the high thirty-thousands through above sixty thousand dollars before exceptional pieces. The source gives a market-level span, not an individually identified, grade-specific certified realization.

Current fixed-price retail

Very thin; current asks are highly specimen-specific.

Raw auction

Evidence pending. Do not infer a price ladder.

Published schedule observations (not raw-auction tiers)

Entry: ~$40,000-$50,000; Typical: —; Choice: ~$70,000+

Market / specialist note

Unlabelled raw observations are displayed as published wording, not assigned to invented auction tiers.

What affects this price?

Even within one ruler, denomination and type, grade, strike, centering, surfaces, style, patina, rarity, provenance, and tooling or smoothing can materially change value. These are not automatic numeric adjustments.