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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3165745, member: 19463&quot;]If you are still with us, I agree with Roman Collector on each point and add one.&nbsp; There is more than one hobby called coin collecting by people who participate.&nbsp; If your hobby is collecting coins, you will find help here but you said &#039;buying and selling&#039;.&nbsp; We might take that to mean that your interest in coins is seeing how much profit you can achieve in how short a time.&nbsp; Age not considered, I have no use for that hobby and would be quite happy if you moved on to day trading in the stock market.&nbsp; Certainly, to some degree, buying and selling comes into the hobby as most of us practice it but when it is the first thing out of your mouth, you lose some &#039;points&#039; here. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, you can make a profit buying and selling ancient coins.&nbsp; You also can turn a good size pile of cash into nothing by thinking you know more than you do.&nbsp; All things taken into account, the 50+ years I have spent collecting ancient coins has returned to me a lot of enjoyment and a little potential for profit which will not be realized until my heirs sell my favorite coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; My considerable library, all the gas I spent driving to coin shows, the tuition and time I spent learning what I can still remember about the subject and the mistakes I made along the way (trusting the wrong people, overpaying, fakes, poor identifications etc.) need to be subtracted from the profit potential.&nbsp;&nbsp; We don&#039;t call it the &#039;Darkside&#039; for nothing <i>but</i> many of us would not change a single thing. If this seems like a good game plan to you, welcome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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