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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2354512, member: 19463"]Each of these will be relatively easy to ID except for the small one in the center which lacks important parts of the legend. You may not care now about details of ID but it would be good practice to try to figure out what you have here. Like over half of my coins purchased over the last 50 years, you will be hard pressed to sell these for any fraction of what you paid but there is education to be had here worh several times as much as the coins themselves. Dealers and advanced collectors usually have as many lower grade coins as they can handle and do not want to tie up capital in things they may find hard to sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree with TIF that you would do well to practice photography and present images here that will enable others to learn from your coins or help you with them as needed. The Coin Talk software will downsize images to fit a screen and paired images are easier to keep straight so that is a good thing to learn. </p><p><br /></p><p>As an exercise, I'd start with the center and bottom bronzes which are covered by a great ID help site:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/</a></p><p>Look at the images of reverses and find the best match to your coins. Click on that to see which rulers used that type and which mints produced them. The bottom coin should be easy but the smaller center one will not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2354512, member: 19463"]Each of these will be relatively easy to ID except for the small one in the center which lacks important parts of the legend. You may not care now about details of ID but it would be good practice to try to figure out what you have here. Like over half of my coins purchased over the last 50 years, you will be hard pressed to sell these for any fraction of what you paid but there is education to be had here worh several times as much as the coins themselves. Dealers and advanced collectors usually have as many lower grade coins as they can handle and do not want to tie up capital in things they may find hard to sell. I do agree with TIF that you would do well to practice photography and present images here that will enable others to learn from your coins or help you with them as needed. The Coin Talk software will downsize images to fit a screen and paired images are easier to keep straight so that is a good thing to learn. As an exercise, I'd start with the center and bottom bronzes which are covered by a great ID help site: [url]http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/[/url] Look at the images of reverses and find the best match to your coins. Click on that to see which rulers used that type and which mints produced them. The bottom coin should be easy but the smaller center one will not.[/QUOTE]
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