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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 6271697, member: 75937&quot;]Back in the 1980&#039;s when I started collecting, there was a brick and mortar store in my city that sold stamps, coins -- both ancient and modern -- and antiquities. I&#039;d visit there once a month or so and look around (inventory didn&#039;t change all that quickly) and buy a coin every once in a while. Here are three early purchases from that store:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248328[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248329[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248330[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There were coin shows, the larger of which were attended by Nick of Pegasi, Stephen Huston, Tom Cederlind, William Rosenblum, Jonathan Kern, Ed Waddell and others. I&#039;d buy coins there and get put on their mailing lists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one I bought from Pegasi at a show:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248360[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>After subscribing to the Celator in the 1990&#039;s I ordered coins from printed lists in the advertisements and I got on several mailing lists. Catalogs would come every week or two. Auction catalogs were, of course, illlustrated. I bought this at Huston&#039;s mailbid sale from an illustrated catalog:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248363[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Printed price lists simply said stuff like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>59. MOESIA INFERIOR, Marcianopolis, Elagabalus and Julia Maesa, AE 28, Dikaiosyne, AMNG 962 F/F+ ... $25.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you&#039;d buy it, sight unseen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1248348[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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