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Message:: [QUOTE="octavius, post: 8299694, member: 100777"]I remember buying my first ancient Roman coins when I was a 14 year old kid in 1967. I was in a local coin shop and the owner showed me a box of loose, unlabeled Roman coins. All he could tell me was that they were "probably Roman" and they were 0.25 cents for the small ones and 0.50 cents for the large ones. I eventually bought all he had. The "small ones" were mostly antoniniani of Aurelian, Probus, Claudius II, Gallienus, Numerian. The "larger " ones were mostly 3rd century sestertii , and a beautiful , VF+ as of Tiberius with SC reverse, some Vespasians and  Augustus with eagle reverse. Also, some turned out to be Large folles of Justinian. I still have every one, but no pictures .  In all the years since then, I never had another find like that.[/QUOTE]