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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1052063, member: 19463&quot;]Dirty Dozen will help with the first two but you need a better site for the third (and you need to show the reverse if you want help.&nbsp; For coins after the Constantnian period, I recommend:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/index.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is part of Warren Esty&#039;s site which has a lot of other features worth seeing including some aimed directly at beginners:</p><p><a href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://esty.ancients.info/numis/" rel="nofollow">http://esty.ancients.info/numis/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m sure several of you are good and tired of my opinions but I&#039;ll not soon stop.&nbsp; Consider it the price of any answers I give that you do like:&nbsp; Beginners would be better off buying a few slightly nicer coins than lots of real trash where the better coins look like the ones shown here.&nbsp; After you look at a few thousand coin with good details, it will be easier to &#039;read&#039; coins like the ones shown here.&nbsp; After 45+ years of collecting ancients, I can identify one of the above coins with 80% certainty and the other two only partially.&nbsp; The one (the first) could be duplicated in a good looking example for $5 to $25 depending on where you shop and how perfect you require even though it is not a terribly common minor variety.&nbsp; The other two are in a similar or slightly lower bracket.&nbsp; I know you would miss the thrill of the hunt from uncleaned junk lots but lower priced ancients are available in conditions that are legible and tastefully cleaned, too.&nbsp; If you pay $1 each for 100 coins and get three that are reasonably nice and 97 dogs, you might want to consider buying ten individual coins, all nicer and all different, for the same $100.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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