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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3215188, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps it is too late but the first thing to learn is that sellers of absolute junk late Romans often use terms like Constantine era to mean anything remotely Roman.&nbsp; Since the name Constantine was last used by Constantine XI about 1100 years after Constantine I, I suppose one could make a case for this being acceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you asked some of us, certainly me, you would be advised not to start out with unidentifiable or marginally identifiable bulk coins even at $1 each.&nbsp; You will find few as nice as that Byzantine, I would suspect, and you will be a lot more prepared to ID even ones that nice after gaining a little experience with coins with more detail.&nbsp; The same $40 could have bought you 4 or 5 slightly better coins from almost anyone who has collected a while and outgrown this level material or, perhaps, one really decent coin that might still be in your collection in a decade or a lifetime.&nbsp; I still have three coins I owned over 50 years ago.&nbsp; I also have coins I regret buying now but probably contributed to my education as much as they cost.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I&#039;d suggest a moderator be asked to move posts to this thread starting with #14 to a separate thread and lock this FAQ thread so only FAQ type posts are here and specific cases do not make it too long to be of use for the original purpose.&nbsp; I can not fault Marshall for not realizing the patterns of posts here but it is a lot easier on all concerned if we start new threads for new things and add comment posts only to threads that are on the same subject.&nbsp; When you desire to find something again, I suspect you will understand why I feel this way on the matter.&nbsp; Welcome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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