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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3001880, member: 51347&quot;]Welcome [USER=93355]@Gentlemaninpa[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice recap [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER], thanks.&nbsp; I like to search and research as much as I can prior to posting a lot of questions.&nbsp; Rather, I try to use rifle shots when I need info.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also use the Coin Talk Search function for info about coins.&nbsp; It is AMAZING how many cool discussions, information, and folks offering links or further means to get information.&nbsp; You can search via a subject or even via a CoinTalk Member.&nbsp; I search via Members many times as they have real specialties and their contributions have revolved around their specialized knowledge.&nbsp; It seems a lot of the major coins and questions for information can be found there.&nbsp; That is what makes this Forum excellent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Additionally, I have found a LOT of information via forumancientcoins.com (among many other sites). Many of the posters and members here are members there too.&nbsp; It is a much more academic approach, but they have a coin shop, fake information, great and incisive discussions on their forums focused on coins, etc.&nbsp; You can trust the shop there for the Ancients offered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, I only use eBay and/or Amazon for Ancients sellers that I really know and trust.&nbsp; I do not like using a shotgun approach of searching on these sites, then trying to DETERMINE if the items are fake and/or I can trust the &quot;sellers&quot;.&nbsp; There have been too many shills or faked up sales and &quot;feedbacks&quot;.&nbsp; HOWEVER, I DO save my TRUSTED SELLERS and shop them all the time. I find it a waste of time pursuing a lot of those Ancients items and concerning myself if it is fake, if I can trust a seller, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I focus on coins representing critical junctures in Human History.&nbsp; I am in no way a numismatist, but love the Hobby of Ancients.&nbsp; My general focus is on Roman Republic and those entities that interacted with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]742850[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Republic</b></p><p><b>Anonymous, circa 310-300 BCE </b></p><p>AR Heavy Denarius - Didrachm 20mm, 7.28g uncertain mint (Neapolis?). <i>Obv.</i>Helmeted head of Mars to left; oak spray to right.</p><p><i>Rev.</i> Horse’s head right, wearing bridle, on base inscribed ROMANO; to left, stalk of grain.</p><p>Sear 22; Crawford 13/1; HN III 266; Sydenham 1.</p><p><i>From a Swiss collection, formed in the 1990s</i></p><p>FIRST AR coin minted under Roman Authority[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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