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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 4906837, member: 81887&quot;]I collected US and world coins for a while when I was young (say 6-12 years old).&nbsp; I enjoyed seeing photos of ancient coins in books, and I was vaguely aware that it was possible to collect them, but the local coin shops had just a couple of silver Greek and Roman pieces that were well out of my price range, so I didn&#039;t think much more about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got back into coins again in college.&nbsp; The coin shop near campus got in a bunch of inexpensive ancients sometime during the winter of 1992-3 (this was when the Balkans were just being opened up to metal detecting, and lots of ancient coins started entering the market).&nbsp; I bought a few coins from the $3 box (AE3 and AE4 LRBs) and a couple of $5 (mainly Roman Provincial, with a few worn large Roman Imperials).&nbsp; I managed to identify them using books from the college library, and I was hooked. This is the first I was able to identify, Constantius II from Sirmium:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183972[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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