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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6316263, member: 110350&quot;]I bought my first coin books of any kind in the mid-1960s, starting when I was about 9 or 10, but didn&#039;t buy my first book exclusively about ancient coins until the mid-80s, about 20 years later. The very first coin book I owned was the 1965 4th edition of Ken Bressett&#039;s Guide Book of English Coins, which my father bought for me in a shop in the Bahamas called &quot;Coin of the Realm&quot; when I was a young child and we were there on vacation; I had expressed fascination with the circulating English coinage.&nbsp; And there was this book, published in 1964, which my parents bought for me about a year later. It had a few pages about ancient coins; I&#039;m attaching part of one of them:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250182[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250183[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>$1.50? $3? If only I could go back! I do remember looking at these drawings with interest as a child. They seemed magical to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then in 1967 I bought this one, which had an interesting chapter of about 30 pp. on ancient coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250184[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But this was my first actual ancient coin book, published in 1981 (the previous [3rd] edition to the 1988 edition posted by [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] above). I bought it around 1985 because I always liked Roman coins, even though I bought them&nbsp; only sporadically over the next 30 years:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250186[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I found these penciled notes of mine on one of the endpapers. The top part, written on March 1, 1986 shortly after I bought the book, lists the rather wretched coins (mostly AE4s) I had bought when I was 8 or 9 at a local shop, at a price of 3 or 4 to the dollar. but had kept since then. Plus a Domitian and a Trajan Decius I bought at coin shows in the early 1980s (together with my Ti. Veturius Republican denarius which I bought the same day as the Trajan Decius but didn&#039;t write down for some reason.)&nbsp; The prices I wrote down, from the book, were way too optimistic given the condition of the coins with prices -- as I said, wretched, except for the Domitian. The bottom part lists the Domitian again, plus the handful of additional coins I bought during the next 20 years or so, from 1986 to the mid-2000s. (I got married in 1987 and my son was born in 1990, which, along with work and getting divorced, didn&#039;t leave a whole lot of time for the next 20 or 25 years to think about ancient coins in addition to my primary collecting interests back then, namely antiquities and British coins and historical medals.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250185[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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