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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1571371, member: 26302&quot;]Geoff, the best I would recommend in a $10-20 price range would be late romans. They are very doable in that price range to get very nice looking, clean, readable coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>You are very wise to wish to collect only nice, readable coins and not the dreck on Ebay. Any coin you cannot read or looks like a lump of dirt will never be worth anything, and you will regret buying it forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for learning about them, I would recommend getting David Sear&#039;s &quot;Roman coins and their Values&quot; 1988 edition, (pink cover). This is the last one volume edition he did. Don&#039;t worry about the prices, at least they will show you in a relative manner what is common and what is rare. Another idea would be Aorta by Suarez. Plus, do not just use this book for looking up coins, READ IT. The first 40 pages of Sear are full of great information about Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once you get going in ancients, I am sure you will branch out and find your niche. Just take your time and enjoy the ride. If you love history by gosh, you are going to REALLY love collecting ancient coins! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: For full disclosure, I just bought over 500 late romans and MAY be offering some on the For Sale section. I do not beleive that would change my answer to you as to what ancients to collect in the $10-20 price range, but wanted to be open as to any conflicts I may have. (Btw, yeah, I know, the hoarder thinking about SELLING something, weird huh?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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