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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 699080, member: 19409&quot;]Well I&#039;m quite fond of them, and that&#039;s where most of my collecting money goes. I love being able to hold history in my hand, and I like how much variation there is compared to modern coins. For an idea of how much variety there is, Roman Imperial Coinage, the standard reference for Roman coins from 31 BC to 491 AD, is 10 volumes long, each volume being hundreds of pages. That series doesn&#039;t even cover provincial coinage, of which there are thousands of types. Because of this, there really isn&#039;t anything at all like the Redbook for ancient coinage. There&#039;s far too many types out there, and it&#039;s often hard to tell which minor variations in them collectors will care about at any particular time, and since the dies were carved and coins struck by hand, the quality of the coins varies a lot more from coint to coin, and the quality of such variations is very subjective. If you hang around the hobby long enough, you can get a feel for pricing, but it&#039;s never as easy as it is for modern coins (not that that is necessarily easy!).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So would you mind sharing what you purchased? I&#039;m curious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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