Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4509240, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Georgia"></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">I did the same thing but with fewer dollars and fewer coins. I bought 100 and sat down with the British Museum Catalog. (My state university had two sets, one in the Reserved shelf, the other circulating.) Some other books helped, also. I got a few things wrong. Taking my work to another dealer who also knows ancients, got my mistakes fixed. (The one I bought from was mail order. My tutor was local.) </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">But if I had stopped there &quot;everything I know about ID&#039;ing coins&quot; would not be much. I mean, anyone can read an inscription. I learned to read Tibetan that way: a dealer gave me some coins he had been tendered and I went to the state university library and used the books on Tibetan language and literature. (See my blog here: </font><a href="https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/09/sacred-silver-from-roof-of-world.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/09/sacred-silver-from-roof-of-world.html" rel="nofollow"><font face="Georgia">&quot;Sacred Silver from the Roof of the World&quot;</font></a><font face="Georgia"> ) </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in