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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 942547, member: 19409&quot;]There are fakes in all price ranges.&nbsp; The real trick is to use trusted dealers and don&#039;t spend a huge amount unless you have a good feel for the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for whether cheap coins are &quot;worth the money,&quot; that largely depends on what your intention with them is.&nbsp; Are you trying to invest?&nbsp; If so, then the more expensive ones are probably a better bet. However, keep in mind that ancients are trickier than modern coins in this respect, as there aren&#039;t standard price guides, and some guy in Bulgaria could dig up a hoard of just about any coin and flood the market.&nbsp; Do you want the coins for the history, art, or simple love of coins?&nbsp; In that case, there&#039;s nothing wrong with going cheap.&nbsp; The issue is simply whether you enjoy the coins or not.&nbsp; You may very well buy coins that others wouldn&#039;t touch, but as long as you like them that shouldn&#039;t matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I&#039;ve never spent more than $30 on a coin.&nbsp; You can take a look at a decent amount of what I have <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/index.php?cat=19819" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/index.php?cat=19819" rel="nofollow">here</a> for an idea of what you can get.&nbsp; I&#039;ve managed to get some coins that most collectors would agree were pretty good for what I&#039;ve paid, and I&#039;ve got some that have little value due to being broken, but I&#039;m fond of them, anyway.&nbsp; You&#039;ll find some people who have collecting strategies like mine, and others who&#039;d call almost everything in my collection junk.&nbsp; What you think is really up to you.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you are new at this, I would recommend staying away from the really expensive stuff for now.&nbsp; As you look at and handle more coins, you&#039;ll get a better feel for what you really like and what&#039;s important for style and condition, and you may find that you no longer like some of the earlier stuff you got.&nbsp; Many people also become rather specialized in certain periods, emperors, mints, and/or other factors as they learn and collect more, and many simply no longer value having coins of many of the emperors that they cared about early on.&nbsp; This isn&#039;t to say that everyone does this, but you should probably wait to make sure of what you like before you spend the big bucks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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