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<p>[QUOTE="BustCoinageDude, post: 1037420, member: 12004"]My first ancient coin purchase was more than 30 yrs ago. It was a generic Constantine worth about $5.</p><p> I was a zit faced teenager with a nominal budget and graduating high school. I saw ads from dealers like Wayne Phillips, Amphora Dave, CNG, and Wayne Sayles, Tom Cederland, etc etc. These guys were nice to me and this was before the internet, in the 1980's. So it was old fashioned letter writting and telephone and mail bidding and fixed price lists in the mail, ha ha.</p><p> These guys dealt with $1000 coins, but they gave me good service and because they gave a little kid the time of day on a $5 coin, they now get my better purchases, and this is 30 yrs later. So the inexpensive Constantine coins have a special place in my heart, because at that time, I could afford nothing else and these guys helped me and thirty year later, I still feel nice when I look at a Constantine coin, + 1 for the good guys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BustCoinageDude, post: 1037420, member: 12004"]My first ancient coin purchase was more than 30 yrs ago. It was a generic Constantine worth about $5. I was a zit faced teenager with a nominal budget and graduating high school. I saw ads from dealers like Wayne Phillips, Amphora Dave, CNG, and Wayne Sayles, Tom Cederland, etc etc. These guys were nice to me and this was before the internet, in the 1980's. So it was old fashioned letter writting and telephone and mail bidding and fixed price lists in the mail, ha ha. These guys dealt with $1000 coins, but they gave me good service and because they gave a little kid the time of day on a $5 coin, they now get my better purchases, and this is 30 yrs later. So the inexpensive Constantine coins have a special place in my heart, because at that time, I could afford nothing else and these guys helped me and thirty year later, I still feel nice when I look at a Constantine coin, + 1 for the good guys.[/QUOTE]
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