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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4656333, member: 110350"]It would make me sound much more impressive if I allowed you to continue under that impression! And it"s entirely true that I began actively collecting ancient coins less than three years ago. But I actively collected British coins and historical medals, as well as some other world coins and medals, for about 35 years before that.  As well as Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquities. And I actually bought my very first handful of wretched LRBs circa 1963 or 1964, when I was 8 or 9. I bought my first decent ancient coin in February 1986, an AR drachm of Alexander III (under Philip III Arrhidaeus) minted in Miletos, at the old Harmer Rooke gallery, where I had gone that day to look at antiquities.  And I bought perhaps a half-dozen Roman denarii over the subsequent 30 years, using a copy of the 1981 edition of Sear to identify them.  So I would say that I wasn't entirely unfamiliar with the field as of 2017.  But I've learned a great deal since then, and much more just since I joined this forum in late January. I'm reasonably good at absorbing lots of information when I'm interested in a subject.  As opposed to, say, my geometry class in high school!  And I pretty much slept through law school.[/QUOTE]