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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3208015, member: 44316&quot;]True, but it seems the norm for US coins. This is a good reason to consider collecting ancient coins. The concept of quality is important in ancient coins and takes time to learn, almost in the same way grading does for US coins. But there is far less pressure to collect the highest grades and make sure they really do correspond to some grade. Take a look at the CoinTalk <b>ancient</b>-coin forum and see if you don&#039;t find it interesting:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/forums/ancients/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/forums/ancients/">https://www.cointalk.com/forums/ancients/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Beginners can look here at a thread with resources for beginners:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-coins-beginners’-faq-thread.324858/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-coins-beginners’-faq-thread.324858/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-coins-beginners’-faq-thread.324858/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Books:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/books-on-ancient-roman-and-byzantine-coins.324689/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/books-on-ancient-roman-and-byzantine-coins.324689/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/books-on-ancient-roman-and-byzantine-coins.324689/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>When you check out some ancient coin threads you will often see responses like &quot;Nice coin!&quot; but no responses like &quot;Is this really MS62?&quot;&nbsp; You don&#039;t have to worry that the grade is a bit wrong. I repeat my agreement with Sully:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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