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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steven Michael Gardner, post: 4661256, member: 97508&quot;]&quot;Know the coin or know the seller&quot; is as sound as it gets... but that will not teach the myriad things one needs to know to get to the point of &quot;knowing the coin&quot; Many sellers are fine answering some questions for their customers, but unless one does a lot of buying, many sellers do become annoyed/vague with to many questions not concerning the specific coins purchased, this I have some experience with as well... Yes the more one does anything repetitively, the more familiar they become, however for beginners that can be a long process, and todays generation can become impatient, bored and give up before ever finding the joy of coin collecting. I myself have learned as you instructed to recognize Roman era coins, emperors, deitys, exergue types, etc. however Wildwinds has organized lists for such things, However the eras before the Romans are not nearly as well organized and images and symbols can be very abstract to a beginner to start a search from scratch.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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