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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1844566, member: 42773"]This thread underscores the fact that you don't need to actually collect coins to enjoy the hobby and science of numismatics. My interest in Constantine-era coins has compelled me to study volumes VII and VIII of RIC. I go through the catalog of coins and see how many I can find on the internet, whether for sale, or on sites like Wildwinds, Coinproject, acsearch, etc. I then copy the images and paste them into a list, something like this...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s21.postimg.org/8c2f6b2gn/ric2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>This exercise has considerably improved my knowledge of this coinage, and honed my cherry-picking abilities. I've managed to find a handful of coins of considerable rarity, that were overlooked by collectors that only saw their condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1844566, member: 42773"]This thread underscores the fact that you don't need to actually collect coins to enjoy the hobby and science of numismatics. My interest in Constantine-era coins has compelled me to study volumes VII and VIII of RIC. I go through the catalog of coins and see how many I can find on the internet, whether for sale, or on sites like Wildwinds, Coinproject, acsearch, etc. I then copy the images and paste them into a list, something like this... [url=http://postimage.org/][img]http://s21.postimg.org/8c2f6b2gn/ric2.jpg[/img][/url] This exercise has considerably improved my knowledge of this coinage, and honed my cherry-picking abilities. I've managed to find a handful of coins of considerable rarity, that were overlooked by collectors that only saw their condition.[/QUOTE]
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