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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2144401, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote the above series of pages with the intent of helping beginners &#039;get&#039; the language of ancient coins and, along the way, show examples of various categories of coins.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying that reading them will make you expert in anything.&nbsp; The last page is a postscript that touches on a few matters of collecting (fakes, grading etc.) but the rest show a few what there is that make up the million or so varieties we call ancients.&nbsp; I did not select only &#039;beginners&#039; coins and I did not select only expensive rarities (I had to borrow one to be able to show the most expensive coin and it is a cheap example for its category).&nbsp; Some beginners with deep pockets start with coins costing several hundred/thousand apiece but most of us stay a little more conservative until we learn a little bit about what we like and what is available.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>While I do believe reading my pages will benefit most beginners, I even more suggest yo read all the posts here and pay attention to the difference of opinions offered by out regulars.&nbsp; We are quite a varied lot and all remember when we were new at all of this.&nbsp; Feel free to ask questions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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