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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 7948309, member: 80952&quot;]Regarding lots - IMO for studying purposes they are good. But it depends how much are you willing to pay/risk for this. </p><p>I would recommend, since JJ is a beginner, to focus on learning for free, from the web. And to buy individual coins, checking the market value first...</p><p>The coin in this thread is way too expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a total of 3 ancient lots. First - 34 coins - 100 EUR but that was a serious case of beginner&#039;s luck as there were very interesting coins there, in decent condition, some of them quite rare, and I think just 2 coins that were bad. I just moved my collection in a different album today and checked them again - their value exceeds the price I paid. By much.</p><p>Second, a lot of 13 coins - 100 EUR. Decent. Interesting 1st century Roman Imperial but low grades.</p><p>Third, a lot of 12 coins - 30 EUR. But ... let&#039;s just say that I would have preferred a 30 EUR denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very unlikely to find true gems in a lot. I don&#039;t buy from Ebay so I can&#039;t give any advice there. But on auctions from houses, if they put a group of coins for sale, they have a reason. Usually the reason is that the coins would not sell individually.</p><p>I have seen expensive group lots where all the coins would have been sold individually with no problems (and with high prices) but they were sold as group lots. Why? no idea, perhaps it was the consignor&#039;s request?! But anyway the prices were according to the value of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, if you see a lot of 50-100 coins for sale, without any details, 99.99999% they were cherry picked and if a rarity was there, it is not anymore. Many coins would be very worn and hard to identify.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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