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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1516191, member: 19463&quot;]Let it be understood that I never recommend uncleaned coins except for those interested in fun and education.&nbsp; Those interested in building a nice collection or making a monetary profit on the experience would be better off buying individual coins or collections of selected coins (when a widow walks into the shop with her husbands collection).&nbsp; A thousand standard unsorted uncleaned coins may turn up only a hundred varieties and perhaps a dozen nice &#039;collectible&#039; coins by standard definitions.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course this can be more or less just like buying a hundred lottery tickets can turn up a hundred million dollars or a pile of scrap paper.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have bought a very few groups of uncleaned coins over the years and perhaps a few dozen individual coins with intent of cleaning them up.&nbsp; Uncleaned coins is a different hobby than collecting ancients.&nbsp; All I ask is individuals understand what they are getting into whichever decision they make.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Shop owners will also have an option of putting out the &#039;losers&#039; in a pot and charging customers a few dollars per coin. Many non-collectors will enjoy owning something that old for almost nothing.&nbsp; The only problem is that the very few of them who do go on in the hobby will discover that what they bought were not really all that nice and that decent common coins of the same age are available for very little more.&nbsp; In the interest of keeping them as happy customers, I&#039;d suggest having a small stock of nicer, professionally cleaned $10-20 ancients so they won&#039;t feel the dealer did not inform them of the options up front.&nbsp; The number of non-collectors who believe anything 1600 years old must be extremely valuable has created a target market group willing to pay $20 for junk but who later will come to the belief that all coin dealers are crooks.&nbsp; We have enough of that sort of thing without adding to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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