APMEX Ancient Coins

Thinking of getting a nice pre made set of ancients just to have.
Apmex has numerous amounts of them
https://www.apmex.com/category/29930/ancient-medieval-sets
Are these a good purchase?
What should I know before purchasing one?
All help appreciated!!!!

 

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I think you'd be better off (happier) if you used these as inspiration and went and found coins that had the appropriate appeal in your eyes and buy those until you create your set. With these pre-made sets, you have no real idea what each individual coin will look like, and some coins might be the same type, but have differing aethetics.

 

All crazy overpriced, stay clear.

 

They are expensive. The photos do not show you the actual coins you are buying.

It is much more fun to hunt down individual coins and a lot cheaper.

 

Thanks

 

Just briefly looking at those it seems you're paying for an expensive wooden box with average coins in it.

 

Also be wary of eBay.

 

As a rule of thumb you will get ripped off buying ancient coins sight unseen.

 

Hi @CoinBlazer Great to have you onboard the Ancients Forum. I can't blame you for being impressed with the APMEX boxed sets. They really seem like a good deal to a beginner ancients collector. The packaging is really nice looking but that's as far as it goes. I bought several of them many years ago when I was just beginning to collect ancient coins. I'll tell it to you like it is though—the coins in these sets are not good quality. Yes—they're authentic but they're low grade, overpriced, over-cleaned, and many of them have been whizzed. Follow @lordmarcovan 's advice and put together your own custom set of ancient coins purchased from trustworthy dealers. Some of the most reputable dealers are members of this forum. I'll send you a list of my favorites.

 

Great! Just what I wanted!

 

I sincerally appreciate all the help

 

@CoinBlazer here are the sets that I purchased when I was new to ancient coin collecting. I gave most of these sets away to members of my church. These folks were very appreciative but none of them are serious coin collectors and they were more impressed with the Biblical history connection than with the numismatic quality.

I will say something positive about these sets however. Aside from making nice gifts to non-collectors they did spark my interest in ancient coin collecting.

 

Well I hope our friendship will be ever lasting as well.

 

Yes, @lordmarcovan , I made a couple of eclectic gift sets. Here's one that shows some how-to images using a Lighthouse™ presentation box.

 

Imma for sure make me one of those if I can

 

You can do it. You don't need any expensive equipment. I do everything using my laptop and my HP inkjet printer.

Here's my Vespasian Denarii and my Indo-Scythian displays. I made these for a glass display case that I set up at my church.