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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1145321, member: 19463&quot;]I regularly post disagreement with book suggestions for beginners since I believe that someone who owns one coin should think twice before spending $1200 on RIC or $150 on ERIC II.&nbsp; There are many worthwhile resources online that will do you more good than catalog listings of just Roman coins.&nbsp; Of course I&#039;m prejudiced toward mine and suggest you start with my favorite pages:</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><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t at Baltimore until Saturday and my favorite dealer there (I bought 17 coins from him and a total of 6 others from other dealers) was apologizing for being so picked over since Friday had been a big day for him.&nbsp; I heard two other dealers moaning over how slow sales were but their prices were set high to guarantee they only sold coins to people desperate for that coin.&nbsp; There was quite a variation of ancient dealers there ranging from reasonably priced and friendly to some I don&#039;t even bother to look at their stock anymore.&nbsp; All I can say is shop around.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are willing to travel there are much smaller shows in Richmond and Fredericksburg later this year as well as another big Baltimore show.&nbsp; There is nothing like seeing the coins in person before you buy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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