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<p>[QUOTE="PMah, post: 8197622, member: 106045"]"Buy the book before the coin". Avoid eBay until you have a better sense of how ancient coins are offered for sale on multiple venues. Almost all the dealers on VCoins are safe, and you can presume and rely on the guarantees. Although some of the pricing on vcoins is a bit ambitious, you can also see that many of the dealers there have other web-presences, and perhaps you will find the same coin at a somewhat better price directly from their own site. VCoins is very good to get an idea of what a coin might reasonably cost -- you don't have to worry about the fake "$25 Julius Caesar " tempting you.</p><p> But it is very tempting to jump into Ancients at low price points and find yourself with unappealing coins you are not interested in, hard to resell except at substantial loss. So, "buy the book [or website] before the coin".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PMah, post: 8197622, member: 106045"]"Buy the book before the coin". Avoid eBay until you have a better sense of how ancient coins are offered for sale on multiple venues. Almost all the dealers on VCoins are safe, and you can presume and rely on the guarantees. Although some of the pricing on vcoins is a bit ambitious, you can also see that many of the dealers there have other web-presences, and perhaps you will find the same coin at a somewhat better price directly from their own site. VCoins is very good to get an idea of what a coin might reasonably cost -- you don't have to worry about the fake "$25 Julius Caesar " tempting you. But it is very tempting to jump into Ancients at low price points and find yourself with unappealing coins you are not interested in, hard to resell except at substantial loss. So, "buy the book [or website] before the coin".[/QUOTE]
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