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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2763908, member: 83845&quot;]Half the fun of getting group lots of ancients is identifying them.&nbsp; Not sure how much extra you are prepared to spend but a few suggestions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Calipers - prices from around $5 for plastic ones to $25ish for decent digital ones on Amazon.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Calipers/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=256411011" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Calipers/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=256411011" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Calipers/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=256411011</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Scale - maybe $10 to $30 on Amazon</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_6?k=scale+coins&amp;sprefix=scale+" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_6?k=scale+coins&amp;sprefix=scale+" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_6?k=scale+coins&amp;sprefix=scale+</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Reference book? For Roman Imperial I really like Encyclodedia of Roman Imperial Coins (ERIC). I think it&#039;s a nice one for beginners too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]635914[/ATTACH] </p><p>The first edition is free online and the second edition I think was around $70 for me but I would need to look back to confirm that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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