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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 4855154, member: 84179&quot;]In the early 2000s, I started purchasing lots of uncleaned ancients with the hopes of it being a cheap introduction to the topic.&nbsp; I had a copy of Sear’s Roman Coins but was making little progress so I ended up buying a few volumes of Roman Imperial Coinage at $75-$150 a pop.&nbsp; All to be able to ID some late roman bronzes in poor condition that cost about $1 each.&nbsp; Then it took me a few months to learn how to use them for LRBs (it’s really tough determining legends, mints, and officinas on low grade stuff when you have nobody to help <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>I probably ended up spending over $1000 on ancient coin references since then.&nbsp; Even though I’m not very active in ancients, I learned quite a bit from them and they’re still an important part of my library.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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