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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2988218, member: 10461&quot;]Hi, Dave (and anybody else with similar thoughts). </p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re in a good place here.&nbsp; Just express your interest on the Ancients forum here and you&#039;ll have lots of expert guidance.&nbsp; Several of our members are <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/coins/ancient-2.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/coins/ancient-2.aspx" rel="nofollow">VCoins</a> dealers, and that is a good place to buy ancient coins.&nbsp; <font size="3">(You&#039;ll want to avoid eBay until you know what you&#039;re doing, though taking a chance on some cheap stuff there is probably OK.)</font>&nbsp; <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp" rel="nofollow">Forum Ancient Coins</a> is another excellent place to shop, and their coins come fully attributed with lots of nice information on the pages and on the holders you receive the coins in.</p><p><br /></p><p>I dabble in all periods of history so I&#039;m certainly no specialist in the ancients, though I collected Roman coins a bit over the last decade.&nbsp; (In the last year or so I got increasingly into ancient Greek stuff.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ancient coins are a wonderful niche of the hobby, and they can be collected on literally <i>any</i> budget from just a few dollars (even as little as $5-10!) on up into the really expensive stuff.&nbsp; You do <i>not</i> have to be rich, and you don&#039;t even really have to have much knowledge to begin with.&nbsp; Everybody starts somewhere, and most of us (myself included) started out knowing practically nothing about ancient history or coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think too many people are intimidated by the vast knowledge some ancient coin collectors have <font size="3">(you&#039;ll meet such encyclopedic people here- and I am <i>not</i> one of them.)</font>&nbsp; But don&#039;t let that bother you.&nbsp; Nobody but <i>nobody</i> can &quot;know it all&quot;, and everybody is in it to learn.&nbsp; You can just &quot;take the plunge&quot; and jump right in, with reasonably little fear of injury. Like you said, go low budget to start, and see where that takes you.&nbsp; The coins will teach you and suggest further paths to follow as you go along, and as you find out what appeals to you most.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PS-</b> The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Ancient-Greek-Roman-Coins/dp/030709362X" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Ancient-Greek-Roman-Coins/dp/030709362X" rel="nofollow">Zander Klawans handbook</a> is a nice, basic, affordable overview for the beginning collector of Greek and Roman coins, and it&#039;s put out by Whitman Publishing, so you should be able to even find it locally in the larger chain bookstores if you don&#039;t want to order it online.</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=sayles+collecting+ancient+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=sayles+collecting+ancient+coins" rel="nofollow">Wayne Sayles</a> books are nice to have.&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to buy the entire set (though that&#039;s great if you want to.)&nbsp; To start with, you can just pick the volumes that interest you the most.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also a lot of great sources of free information on the Web.&nbsp; Our own [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&#039;s <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/" rel="nofollow">site</a> is one such, and is hosted by the aforementioned Forum Ancient Coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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