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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JGGonzalez, post: 24766457, member: 84491&quot;]When I was in high school I bought a coin magazine and an advertisement offered a genuine ancient coin for $30. It turned out to be a cheap antoninianus of Tetricus I, but it got me interested. </p><p><br /></p><p>I probably wouldn&#039;t have stuck with it, but I found a coin shop near my school that sold ancient coins. I went inside and the owner, Sal Falcone, asked what I was interested in. I asked if he had any ancients and he started bringing out boxes of them. After a few minutes he realized I didn&#039;t know anything about them. He put all of the boxes away and took down the two Sear books on Greek coins. He told me to take them home, read them, and then he would sell me a coin. I&#039;d never even met the guy and he was trusting me with his books! </p><p><br /></p><p>I went through them in about a week and then came back and bought my first coin from him. That was in 1985 and I still visit his shop when I can. Over the years he&#039;s sold me a lot of coins and let me borrow a lot of his books. Today I&#039;m going to try to make it over there to take a look at a nice Tyrian shekel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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