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<p>[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 2375145, member: 77704"]I started collecting coins when I was 12. My parents would buy me a AV British Sovereign for a Birthday, better coin for Christmas. By 19 I was hooked for life.</p><p>I got a job, since i lived at home so lucky me could put all my earnings into you guessed it ....gold coins. I already by then liked Ancients....but man most were still out of my budget, so I started into Byzantine gold. Smartest thing, I always wanted perfection, so even then I would get cheaper Emperors like Justin II/Phocas/M. Tiberius.Constantine IX/X etc. in mint state for reasonable prices. I just kept going, and eventually saved up BIG TIME to get some Roman Aurei in sme quality/all this time I still was MORE into Medieval/Islamic/Renaissance/Baroque/Napoleonic era coins. I got 99 percent thru auctions like the ones on sixbid.com. For ancients...CNG/Ars Classica/Tkalec/Nomos/Obolos/Roma/Savoca/NFA all supberb! It takes hard work (job) lots of good reference books to educate yourself, passion for the hobby, and overcoming the heartbreaks when you see all the beautifull material on auction sites....that you can never afford. </p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="panzerman, post: 2375145, member: 77704"]I started collecting coins when I was 12. My parents would buy me a AV British Sovereign for a Birthday, better coin for Christmas. By 19 I was hooked for life. I got a job, since i lived at home so lucky me could put all my earnings into you guessed it ....gold coins. I already by then liked Ancients....but man most were still out of my budget, so I started into Byzantine gold. Smartest thing, I always wanted perfection, so even then I would get cheaper Emperors like Justin II/Phocas/M. Tiberius.Constantine IX/X etc. in mint state for reasonable prices. I just kept going, and eventually saved up BIG TIME to get some Roman Aurei in sme quality/all this time I still was MORE into Medieval/Islamic/Renaissance/Baroque/Napoleonic era coins. I got 99 percent thru auctions like the ones on sixbid.com. For ancients...CNG/Ars Classica/Tkalec/Nomos/Obolos/Roma/Savoca/NFA all supberb! It takes hard work (job) lots of good reference books to educate yourself, passion for the hobby, and overcoming the heartbreaks when you see all the beautifull material on auction sites....that you can never afford. John[/QUOTE]
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