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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2841079, member: 19463&quot;]A lot of this depends on where you are located.&nbsp; Importing low end coins from half way around the world makes little sense.&nbsp; You might also consider the fact that you could buy identified coins and not look at those ID&#039;s when the coins arrive.&nbsp; Dealers in $10 coins do not spend a lot of time on ID research.&nbsp; You could ask sellers if they can provide identifiable, cleaned coins for your purposes but you won&#039;t save a lot since most people with any experience can ID to ruler and mint faster than they can write down the results.&nbsp; &#039;Dirt cheap&#039; and &#039;unattributed&#039; often means coins that will be hard or impossible to ID.&nbsp; I&#039;d practice on photos online and see if your results match the ones given there.&nbsp; Then buy coins you want.&nbsp; </p><p>I have a page on ID work:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/idric.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/idric.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/idric.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A Google image search will give photos of coins buy usually the ID&#039;s will require clicking on the image to see the page from which they came.&nbsp; Pick some from the page below and see if you can ID them.&nbsp; Some you will not.&nbsp; It would be good practice.</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=late+roman+coins&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjvqOKty4LWAhXLsFQKHX-IA6AQ_AUICygC&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=739" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=late+roman+coins&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjvqOKty4LWAhXLsFQKHX-IA6AQ_AUICygC&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=739" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=late+roman+coins&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjvqOKty4LWAhXLsFQKHX-IA6AQ_AUICygC&amp;biw=1600&amp;bih=739</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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