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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 639264, member: 112&quot;]It helps a great deal if you have a certain familiarity with the coins. I used to collect French coinage, so I know a little about it. </p><p><br /></p><p>So how do you learn about it ? Well, like anything - you study. And to study you have to have books - my numismatic library is rather extensive. You can also spend a lot of time researching things on the internet and by reading, and asking questions, on forums like this one. I&#039;ve been collecting coins for almost 50 years, but I only started collecting world coins in earnest in 2002. I&#039;ve studied a lot since then. And it helps if you read other languages. I&#039;ve taught myself to read French, Spanish and Dutch, in regard to numismatic terms anyway. I studied Latin in school, that helps a lot too as most coins have Latin inscriptions.</p><p><br /></p><p>But in all honesty, sometimes you just have to sit down with the books and go through them, page by page and coin by coin. It can take hours to find a single coin. But you learn a lot by doing that. You become familiar with the designs of the various time periods. And once you do that it narrows down where to search and in what book. With your coin, the POLV in the legend is the main clue. There are only a few coins and from a narrow time period with that in the legend. But if you didn&#039;t already know that - well you could be looking for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at my albums sometime. When you buy coins like that, you better know what you are doing or you are going to throw a lot of money away. It provides a good incentive to learn.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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