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<p>[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 4227431, member: 87404"]You're doing just fine... it takes exposure and practice, and your getting coins is helping you with both. Also, using sites like <a href="http://www.acsearch.info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info" rel="nofollow">ACSearch</a> with the search terms that you pick out can help you as well (that's where I started getting familiar with them).</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, based on your thread title you know they are tetradrachms from Alexandria, you mentioned you thought it might be Diocletian, and you call out a rudder as a device on the reverse. Put those in the search box there (so "alexandria tetradrachm diocletian rudder") and you get <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=diocletian+alexandria+tetradrachm+rudder&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=diocletian+alexandria+tetradrachm+rudder&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" rel="nofollow">a little over 2 dozen results</a> of possible matching coins, some similar to yours included. You can also do the exact same thing on <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">VCoins</a> and it also returns <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=alexandria+tetradrachm+diocletian+rudder&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplay=1&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=alexandria+tetradrachm+diocletian+rudder&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplay=1&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False" rel="nofollow">nearly 2 dozen results</a> with your coin type also included. Also you can use this approach to get hits on certain coins on <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coins_sold.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coins_sold.aspx" rel="nofollow">CNG</a> as well (CNG entries do appear on ACSearch as well, but I find it's nice to get their targeted results as well, plus I don't have an ACSearch membership so I can see their sale price on CNG). I tend to do all 3 as a way to see examples, better understand the coins, their identifications, familiarize myself with my coin type and others that come up in the results, their history, market value, etc. And after that, you can then share what you found out on here, and we can help fill in some gaps, or if you get stumped, we can help you out then as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just be patient and cut yourself some slack... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 4227431, member: 87404"]You're doing just fine... it takes exposure and practice, and your getting coins is helping you with both. Also, using sites like [URL='http://www.acsearch.info']ACSearch[/URL] with the search terms that you pick out can help you as well (that's where I started getting familiar with them). For example, based on your thread title you know they are tetradrachms from Alexandria, you mentioned you thought it might be Diocletian, and you call out a rudder as a device on the reverse. Put those in the search box there (so "alexandria tetradrachm diocletian rudder") and you get [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=diocletian+alexandria+tetradrachm+rudder&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0¤cy=usd&company=']a little over 2 dozen results[/URL] of possible matching coins, some similar to yours included. You can also do the exact same thing on [URL='https://www.vcoins.com/en/Default.aspx']VCoins[/URL] and it also returns [URL='https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=alexandria+tetradrachm+diocletian+rudder&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplay=1&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False']nearly 2 dozen results[/URL] with your coin type also included. Also you can use this approach to get hits on certain coins on [URL='https://cngcoins.com/Coins_sold.aspx']CNG[/URL] as well (CNG entries do appear on ACSearch as well, but I find it's nice to get their targeted results as well, plus I don't have an ACSearch membership so I can see their sale price on CNG). I tend to do all 3 as a way to see examples, better understand the coins, their identifications, familiarize myself with my coin type and others that come up in the results, their history, market value, etc. And after that, you can then share what you found out on here, and we can help fill in some gaps, or if you get stumped, we can help you out then as well. Just be patient and cut yourself some slack... :D[/QUOTE]
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