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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 2876667, member: 75641&quot;][USER=76329]@GerardV[/USER] I think what you are doing is probably the best thing you could be doing.&nbsp; It took me forever to make out legends because I wasn’t exactly sure of what I was looking at always.&nbsp; The more coins I looked at, the more the legends became familiar and easier to read.&nbsp; For Roman coins that is.&nbsp; With Greek, with many magistrate and city names there is still a lot to learn.&nbsp; But, like anything else, more experience will help you realize what you are looking at and fill in hard to read or missing parts.&nbsp; As you work, you will have more “eureka” moments than not sometimes even years after you buy an unknown coin.&nbsp; As long as you are putting the work in, folks here will help too.&nbsp; I found Rasiel Suarez’ book “Aorta” very helpful because while it has missing things, it is a great tool for learning legends and mintmark combos to get a handle on especially late Roman bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Keep at it.&nbsp; It’s a really slow start but much like learning another language one day things really click and it all becomes much easier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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