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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1093013, member: 19463&quot;]The answer to this question depends on your definition of &#039;terribly expensive&#039;.&nbsp; For &#039;dirt cheap&#039; about all you get are ugly coins with dirt still on them.&nbsp; They can be 4th century AD Roman or BC Greek bronzes but they won&#039;t be the kind of thing that make modern collectors think the ancients were makes of fine coins.&nbsp; Since this class late Romans are commonly given to beginners, I wrote a page showing the 12 most common dirt cheap coins.&nbsp; I originally called the page the &#039;Dirty Dozen&#039; but that tripped some overprotective parent filters and prevented the page from being used in some conservative schools so I changed it to &#039;12 common types&#039;.</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/uncleaned.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/uncleaned.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/uncleaned.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>More reasonably defined, my 7 page overview of ancients shows only one coin over $500 with most under $100 and some down to $5.&nbsp; (BTW the gold aureus that is way over $500 is not my coin.)&nbsp; This page was written for adult collectors who might want to know what sort of thing is out there.&nbsp; Since there are literally a million different ancient coins, what you find at any given time will vary but the series shows the options and might help prepare you to talk to a coin dealer without sounding too foolish.</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/voc.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Seriously, a good idea for a beginner is to hang around this forum and see what comes up as our resident staff of beginners (that is: all of us) discovers new and neat things about old and raggedy coins.&nbsp; Recommend us to your daughter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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