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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 3223181, member: 82549&quot;]I was a graduate student with three kids when I first discovered ancient coins, so I had virtually no disposable income. I bought lots of 10-20 uncleaned ancient coins off eBay for around $1 or $2 per coin. I&#039;d clean them up, ID them to the best of my limited abilities, keep whatever I thought was interesting, stash the unidentifiable junk--there was a lot of junk--in a container on my desk (they&#039;re still there 20 years later) and then sell the remainders on eBay. Usually I&#039;d recoup my original investment, so the one or two keepers were more or less free. Hard to get much cheaper than that. Sometimes I&#039;d even earn a little money, which meant that I could afford a slightly larger or higher quality lot next time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in answer to your original question, uncleaned ancient coins are the cheapest coins you can get. They aren&#039;t pretty, but most of them will be at least 1,600 years old. And they&#039;re a good way to get introduced to the hobby, because you don&#039;t have to worry about fakes, and as you try to identify what you&#039;ve received, you&#039;ll learn a lot about ancient coins and 3rd-5th century Roman history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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