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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ambr0zie, post: 5365599, member: 80952&quot;]What surprised me (and not in a pleasant way) is the ignorance of most people, even modern coin collectors, when it comes to ancients. I have been a passionate modern coins collector for 8 years (and an amateur collector, as a light hobby, for 30 years), I have a main area in modern numismatics, but if I see a coin outside my area, I try to get as much information as I can. I try to avoid stating uneducated opinions as I hate seeing this from others.</p><p>I am a member of some Facebook numismatic groups, and on some rare occasions, somebody comes with an ancient coin, usually with the classic question - how much does it worth. Not &quot;<b>do you know what this is </b>and an estimate price&quot;. Oh no.</p><p>If they are not interested about the history behind the coin and don&#039;t have the slightest curiosity to read a legend, well I don&#039;t think my help would be appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I see a person thinking about $$$$ and nothing less, I just grab some popcorn and check the comments. Usually people without a clue. Most of them &quot;fake&quot; &quot;cast&quot; - standard comments from the same people, no matter what coin is there. Usually there is that decent fella who just provides a proper attribution. Immediately there are the geniuses with their wisdom (not the Genio Popvli Romani) - &quot;that&#039;s 2000 years old! at least 500$!&quot; &quot;nah it can&#039;t be 500$, I saw a 1880 coin sold for that, this needs to be much more expensive!&quot;</p><p>Then the same decent fella comes with a printscreen from an auction where it says 10$. &quot;Are you trying to trick the man? who on earth sells you these for 10$? Tell me, I&#039;ll buy 200 of them&quot;.</p><p>There is no shame in not knowing something. But speaking about something you have no idea about annoys me badly. I have zero knowledge in fields such as, let&#039;s say, Chinese ancient coins. But I admit it and I avoid &quot;guessing&quot; a price unless I specifically want to embarrass myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>A clear example is my fiancee&#039;s father. He has no experience in numismatics but he also enjoys expressing opinions, usually total nonsense. He told me once he found a coin in the dirt and he googled it and it&#039;s about 3000 Euros. I wanted to see it.</p><p>Of course, it was a modern coin, in G-VG, corroded, correct price in that state 1-2 EUR. I explained that most likely what he saw was an MS67-68 even if technically it&#039;s the same coin but he was convinced I&#039;m trying to trick him.</p><p>After a few months, by accident, I found the same coin at a numismatic fare with 3 EUR (F-VF) - of course, his reaction was that the seller is an idiot.</p><p>His opinion about my 130 ancient coins was that I could buy myself a new house if I sell them.</p><p>So if you have a house for ~1500-2000 EUR, I&#039;m in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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