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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2863861, member: 87200&quot;]Well, I am Michael from Berkeley, CA. I basically advise start-ups these days on a part-time basis. I basically take a little equity in exchange for advice and advisorship. I&#039;ve been in finance, private equity, and venture capital since 1998 when a start-up software company I co-founded was sold.&nbsp; I started collecting ancients at age 11 and continued until I was 18. I had a collection of about 100 coins including 8 of the 12 Caesars. However, I sold my first collection to help pay for college.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started collecting again just a couple of years ago by purchasing four large uncleaned hoards and attributing them. Lots of late roman bronze so I am well represented as far as the fourth and fifth centuries go. Lately I&#039;ve been buying coins of emperors that I don&#039;t have as I am attempting to get a coin of each ruler. I&#039;m becoming increasingly interested in the provincial coins of the Imperial period as well as Alexandrian tets. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like to travel and spent 2011 and 2012 just traveling around the world, seeing the sights. I found the forum on April 28th, 2017 and have been actively posting since then. I&#039;ve found it a great resource and source of camaraderie. Before, collecting was kind of a solitary pursuit and not social at all. Now, it is very social and engaging. So I can say I was really lucky to stumble across the forum during a google search on cleaning-up uncleaned coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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