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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sand, post: 11034129, member: 118540&quot;]Hello [USER=136180]@Abramthegreat[/USER]. Welcome to the world of ancient coins.</p><p>Here&#039;s a good place, to shop for ancient coins, and medieval coins. Most of the sellers are reputable, although some bronze coins may have fake patinas, and there may be some tooled coins (but I&#039;m not sure about that, it&#039;s just my suspicion). At least, you can look around there, and see what&#039;s out there : <a href="http://www.vcoins.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vcoins.com" rel="nofollow">www.vcoins.com</a></p><p>Many ancient coins cost less than $50.</p><p>Key word searches on CoinTalk will help you, to learn about ancient coins.</p><p>Some ancients collectors like to buy books about ancient coins. I&#039;m one of those collectors who likes coin books. You can find recommended coin books, by doing key word searches on CoinTalk.</p><p>Other ancients collectors like to rely on free sources of information, such as web sites, and coin forums such as CoinTalk. You can do key word searches on CoinTalk, to find recommended web sites.</p><p>One web site I use a lot, to search for examples of a particular coin type, which have been sold at past auctions : <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/</a> You may have to create an account, in order to view the high resolution photos of the coins, but it&#039;s free, unless you want to view hammer prices.</p><p>This web site has a lot of information : <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com" rel="nofollow">www.forumancientcoins.com</a> Especially useful is a list of fake coins, which you can access by clicking on Search : Fake Coin Reports. You may have to create an account, in order to search the fake coin reports, but it&#039;s free.</p><p>Here&#039;s a nice web site, for learning about ancient coins, run by one of our fellow ancient coin collectors, [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] : <a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/</a></p><p>Here&#039;s a web page, which someone recommended, which seems to have a large number of free online books about ancient coins. I haven&#039;t tried it, but it looks interesting : <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Library%20of%20Ancient%20Coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Library%20of%20Ancient%20Coinage" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Library of Ancient Coinage</a></p><p>I would advise anyone, who is new to ancient coins, to avoid buying any expensive coins on Ebay, because there seem to be a large number of fakes on Ebay, especially for the expensive coins. There are also cheap fakes on Ebay. However, there are some reputable ancients coin dealers on Ebay.</p><p>In fact, I would advise anyone, who is new to ancient coins, to avoid buying any expensive coins anywhere, until you have learned more about ancient coins. This will help you avoid expensive fakes, and other expensive mistakes. I have made mistakes, and I have bought at least 1 fake Byzantine coin, and probably other fake ancient coins (I am suspicious of a few of my coins). I think almost every ancients coin collector has made mistakes, and has bought a few fake ancient coins. Or, has bought a few coins, which they later decide, they no longer want to keep, and they may eventually sell those coins, or auction them, or give them to other collectors.</p><p>And feel free to ask questions, on the CoinTalk ancients forum. Your initial question is a good start. Many members are happy to answer questions, although it may take a few days, or even up to a week or so, for them to do so.</p><p>&quot;All journeys start with one step.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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