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<p>[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 1943992, member: 39084"]I would reiterate this advice, especially with the amount of excellent free information on ancient coins that you can find on the Internet. If you take a few weeks searching and reading all this information, you may find that your interests are broadened or narrowed from the area you currently find interesting (Roman coins) and can use this to focus your book and coin purchasing on items you'll keep for a long time. (Personally, when I first started collecting ancient coins about seven years ago, I found Doug's site <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> to be particularly enjoyable to read even though I didn't fully understand everything I was reading at that time.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As for buying uncleaned ancient coins, Cointalk is especially useful since there have been a number of threads about the ins-and-outs of cleaning coins, with lots of pictures included. Spending some time searching through these threads will be immensely helpful in your decision about whether or not to keep purchasing and cleaning these coins vs. simply purchasing coins that fit your collecting interests.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 1943992, member: 39084"]I would reiterate this advice, especially with the amount of excellent free information on ancient coins that you can find on the Internet. If you take a few weeks searching and reading all this information, you may find that your interests are broadened or narrowed from the area you currently find interesting (Roman coins) and can use this to focus your book and coin purchasing on items you'll keep for a long time. (Personally, when I first started collecting ancient coins about seven years ago, I found Doug's site [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/[/url] to be particularly enjoyable to read even though I didn't fully understand everything I was reading at that time.) As for buying uncleaned ancient coins, Cointalk is especially useful since there have been a number of threads about the ins-and-outs of cleaning coins, with lots of pictures included. Spending some time searching through these threads will be immensely helpful in your decision about whether or not to keep purchasing and cleaning these coins vs. simply purchasing coins that fit your collecting interests. Good luck![/QUOTE]
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