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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;arashpour, post: 3123795, member: 85830&quot;]Nice to hear you get into ancients ! I warn you it is highly addictive and demanding hobby I have been doing it for 4 years and I cant stop wanting more ancients from more rulers! My advice is start with eastern cultures mainly Sasanian coin they are very interesting in terms of having variety of mint / cities and bust and crown types they are also visually very appealing specially earlier coins (Ardashir I to Piroz I)</p><p><br /></p><p>for me the second rank in terms of interest would be Seleukids , they have beautiful style and craftsmanship and the busts are simply beautiful (look at Antiochus I, II, III for examples)</p><p><br /></p><p>the other domain would be early islamic (caliphate coins) I love kufic script style and these coins also display variety of stylistic writings in Kufic scripts.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for where to buy, I simply trust CNG and steve album auction the most. They have been in this business for a long time and they author books articles etc they are expert and sell genuine coins. Also Forum coins is another good place to buy , VCoins could be an option too but recently I see some fakes show up there so for VCoins , it is very important you know the dealer ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Arash[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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