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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2428469, member: 42634&quot;]try looking at these two swell fella&#039;s pages&nbsp; before you buy a bunch of books and see if you fancy is tickled.</p><p><br /></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><br /></p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>i can feel the dirty looks i&#039;m getting from some of you as you read this...but i&#039;m not a buy the book before the coin type guy.&nbsp; i didn&#039;t get a coin book until coin 100 or so! </p><p><br /></p><p>now my coin library has swollen to three coin books, two were gifts (and i love them!).&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie18" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>i&#039;m a generalist collector, and i just can&#039;t see myself buying emmett and spending more on the book than i spent on my 4 or 5 coins i own that i can find in that book.</p><p><br /></p><p>read online, buy a coin or two (vcoins is a good spot, you can also buy from some of the guys here at cointalk in the selling coins thread).&nbsp; ask questions on the forum, see where it goes from there.&nbsp;&nbsp; if you get hooked, then start buying books. especially if you want to specialize in a certain type of coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; if you want to get a book, get something very general like this sayles book...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Coin-Collecting-v-I/dp/0873495152/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464146072&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=sayles+ancient+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Coin-Collecting-v-I/dp/0873495152/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464146072&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=sayles+ancient+coins" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Coin-Collecting-v-I/dp/0873495152/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464146072&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=sayles ancient coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s a good broad beginners guide for greek coins...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464146497&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=john+anthony+ancient+greek+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464146497&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=john+anthony+ancient+greek+coins" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Greek-Coins-John-Anthony/dp/0582503108/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464146497&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=john anthony ancient greek coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>other forum member are going to give you some very different advice...you should probably listen to them.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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