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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 3274482, member: 14873&quot;]Let me start with a caveat: many of my recollections here are from so many years ago that I cannot vouch for total accuracy -&nbsp; coin prices, dates, events etc. - my memory is not very good now. But here goes:</p><p><br /></p><p>The first Ancient coins I remember owning were a couple of very low grade Roman asses that an uncle bought for me as a gift just before the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. I don’t remember where he bought them or their attribution - there were no coin books I had access to and there was no internet or computers for research.</p><p><br /></p><p>I didn’t start collecting and researching Ancient coins seriously until 1951 (San Antonio, Texas) - my purchases were all from the Coin Department of Joske’s of Texas Department Store in San Antonio.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have about the same recollection - I was a private in the USAF in 1950 making $87 per month - payday required settling my GI laundry account and putting enough money aside for the next month’s entertainment etc. - there wasn’t much left over for coin purchases. I was already focused on Roman Imperials and all I could afford were average grade asses - I don’t recall any LRBs for sale - high grade asses/dupondii, Sestertii, denarii and for sure Aurei were out of my reach until a few years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most significant purchase I made during that time was the newly published Klawans book (Reading and Dating Roman Imperial Coins) in 1953 - that opened the door on attributions and research for me - I loved that little book - still do! When a bought a second hand Volume I “Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum” (BMCRE) by Harold Mattingly later that year I was walking on air - it is still my main research resource.</p><p><br /></p><p>To be continued ……………[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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