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<p>[QUOTE="Mikjo0, post: 171153, member: 3565"]The beauty of collecting ancient coins is that even a beginner with little money can buy small Roman bronzes form the third and fourth centuries for under $20 but if you decide to get a bit more exotic,start in on silver denarii or small Greek staters which will bump you up to $30-40 starting price and run up to hundreds!</p><p>Then once you begin on the really large early Greek coins,you mighy not consider ancient coins to be cheap any more.I've been looking around for a silver "Shekel of Tyre",believed to be the type paid to Judas in the Bible and am having a hard time finding one in nice condition that I can afford.</p><p>Check out this page,and you'll see what I'm talking about.</p><p><a href="http://members.aol.com/AkropolisZ/page2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://members.aol.com/AkropolisZ/page2.html" rel="nofollow">http://members.aol.com/AkropolisZ/page2.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mikjo0, post: 171153, member: 3565"]The beauty of collecting ancient coins is that even a beginner with little money can buy small Roman bronzes form the third and fourth centuries for under $20 but if you decide to get a bit more exotic,start in on silver denarii or small Greek staters which will bump you up to $30-40 starting price and run up to hundreds! Then once you begin on the really large early Greek coins,you mighy not consider ancient coins to be cheap any more.I've been looking around for a silver "Shekel of Tyre",believed to be the type paid to Judas in the Bible and am having a hard time finding one in nice condition that I can afford. Check out this page,and you'll see what I'm talking about. [url]http://members.aol.com/AkropolisZ/page2.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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