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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2599678, member: 82549&quot;]Everyone dumps on eBay, usually for good reason. However, if you promise never to bid or spend more than $15 for a coin, at least not until after you&#039;ve had about 5 or 10 years of ancient coin collecting experience under your belt, I will give you my blessing to buy some ancient coins from eBay. You will end up acquiring a lot of common late Roman bronzes (LRBs) and maybe even some common Greek bronzes in low-to-medium grade. This would actually serve as a pretty decent introduction to ancient coin collecting and give you the opportunity to discover where you main collecting interest lies. Most scam artists--I said &quot;most,&quot; not &quot;all&quot;--aren&#039;t interested in ripping people off for $10 or $15; they&#039;re more likely to go for bigger fish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just remember the adage: &quot;If an offer seems too good to be true, it probably is.&quot; I believe whoever first coined that phrase probably had eBay in mind, even if eBay didn&#039;t actually exist back then. If you see a Republican denarius in EF condition or a VF tetradrachm of Alexander the Great selling for $25, flee. But a worn silver antoninianus of Gordian III with some surface roughness for $15? Yes, that&#039;s possible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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