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<p>[QUOTE="Neal, post: 3246959, member: 43872"]Thanks. I'm not totally new to ancients, just ignorant. I bought my first Roman Republic denarius and small bronze from Scepsis back in 1962 when I was 11 or 12 years old. I paid $6 for the denarius, $3.25 for the other, and still have them. (I've owned the denarius for 2.6% of its 2144 years of existence!) I began buying ancients again about 20 years ago, but almost none cost more than $25, most for a lot less. I have only recently bought a couple of Seleucid coins, so I am definitely a newbie for them. Back when I could get them for $.50 apiece, I used to buy batches of uncleaned Roman coins to give to my 8th grade world history class. Instead of just teaching the Roman Empire, I could afford to give them an actual piece of it! They loved it. And its that feeling of holding a connection to history that draws me to the hobby. Still, I have learned more from CT in the last year or two than in all my years of collecting, and I continue to learn.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Neal, post: 3246959, member: 43872"]Thanks. I'm not totally new to ancients, just ignorant. I bought my first Roman Republic denarius and small bronze from Scepsis back in 1962 when I was 11 or 12 years old. I paid $6 for the denarius, $3.25 for the other, and still have them. (I've owned the denarius for 2.6% of its 2144 years of existence!) I began buying ancients again about 20 years ago, but almost none cost more than $25, most for a lot less. I have only recently bought a couple of Seleucid coins, so I am definitely a newbie for them. Back when I could get them for $.50 apiece, I used to buy batches of uncleaned Roman coins to give to my 8th grade world history class. Instead of just teaching the Roman Empire, I could afford to give them an actual piece of it! They loved it. And its that feeling of holding a connection to history that draws me to the hobby. Still, I have learned more from CT in the last year or two than in all my years of collecting, and I continue to learn.[/QUOTE]
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