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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5139550, member: 19463&quot;]Listen to Oldhoopster.&nbsp; Ancients are not a good hobby for those who absolutely must have a concrete answer to everything.&nbsp; We know a small fraction of what might be known in a perfect world but many places, dates, denominations, reasons for issue, links to history, and, least of all, values are just not known as solidly as a modern collector might like.&nbsp; If you bring to the ancient hobby the attitude fostered by filling a blue Whitman coin folder while referencing each coin in a Redbook, you will never be comfortable with collecting ancient coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What did I learn from those blue folders?&nbsp; I learned that a collection is defective unless there is one coin in each slot and that having more than one coin for a slot creates a problem best avoided.&nbsp; I learned that there was printing under each slot that told me everything I needed to know to participate in the hobby.&nbsp; I learned that I could buy different folders that would dictate to me which coins I needed to collect to fill that folder and which to avoid because they were a year too old or too new to fit in that folder.&nbsp; I learned that 1909 coins did not all fit in one folder even though I had been told that the date was the most important part of the coin.&nbsp; I learned that a coin without complete dating information was defective in the&nbsp; worst possible way.&nbsp; I learned that the coins were displayed with one side hidden and unimportant unless there was a special case (like a VDB on the reverse) that would make me put that coin in the slot with the other side up.&nbsp; You will have no trouble ignoring everything I said and the advice of Oldhoopster and a couple dozen other people here who have been there/done that sometime in the last year or seventy (we have a couple people her who have been doing this since Christ was a Corporal - or is it corporeal?).&nbsp; Check your preconceived notions at the door, keep an open mind and enjoy the experience.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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