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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4319545, member: 19463&quot;]A suggestion for beginners:</p><p>You may find the &#039;problem&#039; with US coins exists in ancients, too, but you do not have to play that game unless that is what you prefer.&nbsp; IF, and only if, you are collecting for the coins and not for their investment potential, you can find thousands of decent looking but common ancients to collect without dipping to ugly junkers or running with the big dogs chasing perfect condition rarities.&nbsp; I have nothing to say to beginners who feel the best coin for them is a 12 Caesar set starting with Otho.&nbsp; Buy Vespasian first; Otho can come later.&nbsp; Just because you are limited by budget does not mean you have to have ugly or illegible coins.&nbsp; Look into F-VF coins of the more common rulers that have reverse types you find interesting.&nbsp; For the price of a worn out rarity, you can get mid grade, interesting and attractive coins coins of the people and places that actually made history rather than those that barely make footnotes in history books. </p><p>Trajan denarius - common, reasonable, important to history:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1097708[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine the Great AE3 - common, reasonable, important to history:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1097710[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian AE Follis&nbsp; (big coin) - common, reasonable, important to history:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1097711[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It will be quite a few years before you can sell these coins for a profit but, if your interest in the hobby is the coins themselves and the history they convey rather than the investment value you dream for, you can benefit from the hobby in so very many ways.&nbsp; Think of the money spent as tuition for education or fun money for entertainment.&nbsp; When done, you have memories and a coin to remind you of when you started.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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