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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3581009, member: 98035&quot;]Man, gotta love the experts in the YouTube comments section. I once shared a photo of one of my better denarii on a non-coin site to prove a point about ancients being affordable, to which the fine experts chimed in &quot;Yeah, because you cleaned it and ruined its value, idiot!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember as a kid, I wanted an ancient coin SOOOOOOO badly, but until 4 years ago I was convinced that I would never own anything with any identifiable features. My parents took me to a coin show in Atlanta when I was a tween (in about 2001?) And armed with my $20 coin budget, I was convinced that I was going to go and buy a nice Roman crusty slug. My dad stopped me: &quot;You know you can&#039;t even buy a genuine coin from the 1800s for that much, so why would you think you could afford a coin that&#039;s 1400 years older than that?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Based on what I&#039;ve seen in the archived descriptions on Wildwinds, I could have walked away with a mint state Septimius Severus denarius or two that day, but instead I blew it all on low grade WWI-WWII era coins from a junk bin. Guess it&#039;s all just as well, since I probably would have blown that $20 on a crusty low grade FTR anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided to revisit the idea of ancient coins about 4 years ago when I got a raise, paid off my wife&#039;s car, and she finished school. I&#039;m glad that I was already on several coin forums, since I was at that time still convinced that anything except a cull LRB would be well beyond my budget.</p><p><br /></p><p>Never in my wildest dreams would I have guess that I&#039;d own what I have today![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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