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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1545547, member: 19463&quot;]Most people either collect generally (&quot;Coins I like that I can afford&quot;) or specifically (&quot;Eastern mint denarii of Septimius Severus&quot;) there is also an opportunity here to collect ancients in a technical sense.&nbsp; That would include errors, coins with unusual shapes or coins that were first (last or only) to introduce some feature (legends, dating, reverses etc. etc.).&nbsp; I collect in all of the ways mentioned and a dozen more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a point.&nbsp; Ancients need to be collected when you find the item.&nbsp; I can go to a large coin show and select between a hundred various 1909S VDB cents or a thousand slabbed dollars in MS65 or higher.&nbsp; I can buy bullion until my back can&#039;t bear the load.&nbsp; What I can&#039;t do is find exactly a match for the ten ancient coins I bought at the last show I attended.&nbsp; There are coins marked as common in the standard catalogs that you might see offered a few times a decade.&nbsp; Most beginners are not seeking such specific things so it is not a problem but I do recommend that you familiarize yourself with what exists that you might want if you happen to see it so you can avoid a decade of bad feeling for having passed over the coin you saw back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>That does not mean that you should buy every overpriced coin you see but you need to study up on what exists and whether you are more interested in what the coins are or what they are worth so you will know when to buy and when to walk away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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