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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 24892845, member: 15481&quot;]As for &quot;uncleaned&quot; coins, I have long found that the best uncleaned coins are those that you buy at cheap auctions like savoca, concordia, bucefalus, etc. If you look at the online catalogs, you will probably find coins that you want to spend time cleaning, and that you decide are possible to clean and get a decent result from. Although more expensive than the typical 4th century &quot;dirty dozen&quot;, you will likely get more value for your money too. But one has to buy at least a couple of coins to make it worth the shipping cost. Just before Christmas, I bought 5 bronze coins from Sicily for 55 euros. They all need cleaning, but at least 4 of them will come out good. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for finding the &quot;right&quot; path with the collecting, my experience is that it takes time. I have allowed myself to shift between different areas of collecting the 20 years I&#039;ve been at it. That has most of all been interesting and a learning experience. If I had been more goal oriented, my collection of one silver coin per Roman emperor would probably have been done by now. But what would have been the fun in being &quot;done&quot; with a collection? I think this is perhaps where ancient coin collectors differ from modern &quot;set&quot; collectors. We don&#039;t have any Dansco albums that tell us when we&#039;re done, so we just keep collecting and collecting<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>If you find Roman coins interesting, I think the 3rd century is a good place to start, as there are many coins in great condition availible for a decent price from that time. When you get used to grading and evaluating ancients from pictures, you can move on to more expensive eras, like the 1st and 2nd century AD. Roman Republican coins from the last century BC is also a great area with many lovely and interesting designs. I have concluded that I prefer coins with no head of state on them, after having collected heads of state for 20 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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