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<p>[QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 695431, member: 19456"]I think that is good advice. In fact, I will add a little to it and say that it would be better to start with ancients that are easy to read and ID, that way, when you do move into unattributed coins, you will be more familiar with how they did things, and perhaps even familiar enough to figure them out with ease, due to the other knowledge you've collected. </p><p> </p><p>However, I would not say don't pass up unattributed coinages completely. If you see them, like them and the price is right...get them...because you never know when you will see them again, and lurking under the centuries of dirt may be some new discovery...</p><p> </p><p>I say this, as of my 4 ancients 3 came attributed and one is not. Of those four, I would have been able to figure out the subject of two of them, but not the denomination...that still confuses me![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Billy Kingsley, post: 695431, member: 19456"]I think that is good advice. In fact, I will add a little to it and say that it would be better to start with ancients that are easy to read and ID, that way, when you do move into unattributed coins, you will be more familiar with how they did things, and perhaps even familiar enough to figure them out with ease, due to the other knowledge you've collected. However, I would not say don't pass up unattributed coinages completely. If you see them, like them and the price is right...get them...because you never know when you will see them again, and lurking under the centuries of dirt may be some new discovery... I say this, as of my 4 ancients 3 came attributed and one is not. Of those four, I would have been able to figure out the subject of two of them, but not the denomination...that still confuses me![/QUOTE]
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