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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2458039, member: 44316&quot;]PP, I recommend you begin here:</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>and read the FAQ. Then read any of the other collecting-area pages that strike your fancy. </p><p>That site, and many other sites, have pages of links to other educational sites:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/sitelinks.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/sitelinks.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/numis/sitelinks.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>At the bottom of the CoinTalk ancients page there are (as I write) links to 7,741 threads--probably more than you want to read. However, this site also has a good search engine (upper right) and if you get any idea or coin in mind, you can search to see if it has been discussed before. </p><p><br /></p><p>US-coin collecting is far more limited than ancient-coin collecting, which takes a different mindset because the list of types in almost any area is endless. The ancient world had several cultures issuing huge numbers of coins from numerous mints (c. 500 Greek mints) for 1000 years. The Roman Republic had well over 500 silver types. The one Roman emperor Antoninus Pius issued over 1000 types. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is very liberating. You don&#039;t have to pick an area thinking &quot;I&#039;m trying to get them all.&quot;&nbsp; There is rarely a &quot;key date&quot; parallel to the rarer US types. You don&#039;t need to finish any collection. There are many rarities in any collecting area that you will never find. Not to worry. You will certainly find many more interesting coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, my advice is to buy coins that interest you. If you are interested enough to take the time to figure out what is neat about a type (say, neat enough to show a non-collecting friend, or show and explain it to a US coin collector, or begin a CoinTalk thread on it), then that coin worth having in your collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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