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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hoth2, post: 2591083, member: 74431&quot;]My first ancients were a group of four uncleaned coins that needed a few months in olive oil before any detail was visible.&nbsp; Three of the four wound up with visible details and two of them were good enough to put into flips.</p><p><br /></p><p>They were my only ancient coins until most of the crud came off and then I was hooked on ancients.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That lot was six dollars, shipped, so we were about as close to risk-free as you can get.&nbsp; I&#039;ve only bought one other lot and that was a dud (a bunch of tiny slugs), but the feeling that I was (probably) the first person to see the surface of the coin in almost two thousand years was real and very cool.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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