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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2479024, member: 19463&quot;]I was a kid in the fifties and sent a couple dollars off for genuine ancient coins.&nbsp; I still have most of them.&nbsp; Few were identifiable even to culture with most beyond bad.&nbsp; I used a few in the made up illustration below from one of my coin show pages:</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/0junk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The six larger coins (2 fakes, a Gallienus, Licinius and 2 showing reverses) were laid out on a bed of coins from my super cheap purchase.&nbsp; I&#039;m happy to announce that the crooks cheating kids today learned their craft from their grandfathers. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are thousands of junker coins found for every one I would consider collectible and a thousand that I would accept for every one normal collectors who post here would find worth owning.&nbsp; Lets say next there are a thousand better ones for every coin good enough to make a high end sale (I really believe this last number is 10,000 to 100,000 but fear you will think me an extremist).&nbsp; People who say all ancient coins are rare and belong in museums are liars.&nbsp;&nbsp; Am I wrong to say that the median ancient coin (the one which has as many better than it as it has worse) would not be worth the postage to mail it?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They are there.&nbsp; Finding exactly what you want at the price you want to pay is the hobby as we know it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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