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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1943650, member: 26302"]So, for your list:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Identifying fakes will take a while. Best to stick with dealers we can recommend to you, or have us look at pics before you buy something beforehand. Lower end fakes are not that common.</p><p>2. Whitman not really. What kinds fo ancients? If Roman, David Sear's Roman coins and their values 1988 edition is a good value if you can buy it for less than $50. Ancients are so huge you really need to narrow it down for us. A good website to start is Doug Smith's website:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/</a></p><p>Any questions just ask Doug, he is a great poster here.</p><p>3. Lots of places really. Ebay is not bad at all. Depends on what you want.</p><p>4. Huge subject. Generally you are much better to buy cleaned coins, since most uncleaned coins are really slugs sold to suckers. You will be money ahead to only buy a coin already cleaned that you like and wish to keep forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1943650, member: 26302"]So, for your list: 1. Identifying fakes will take a while. Best to stick with dealers we can recommend to you, or have us look at pics before you buy something beforehand. Lower end fakes are not that common. 2. Whitman not really. What kinds fo ancients? If Roman, David Sear's Roman coins and their values 1988 edition is a good value if you can buy it for less than $50. Ancients are so huge you really need to narrow it down for us. A good website to start is Doug Smith's website: [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/[/url] Any questions just ask Doug, he is a great poster here. 3. Lots of places really. Ebay is not bad at all. Depends on what you want. 4. Huge subject. Generally you are much better to buy cleaned coins, since most uncleaned coins are really slugs sold to suckers. You will be money ahead to only buy a coin already cleaned that you like and wish to keep forever. Hope that helps.[/QUOTE]
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