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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3300277, member: 19463&quot;]I disagree with almost every post given so far at least in part.&nbsp; I very much agree with the Finn235 thoughts I quoted here but then he went on to recommend set collecting which is exactly the opposite of what I suggest.&nbsp; The big point here is just about each and every one of us approach this huge hobby in a different way.&nbsp; Not only is there nothing wrong with that, that is exactly the best part of collecting ancient coins.&nbsp; You can not ever have them all.&nbsp; That frees you to have only the ones that you want.&nbsp; We call that the coins that speak to you.&nbsp; Some here can not tolerate any coin that is not mint state and are satisfied with a collection of very few perfect coins.&nbsp; Others of us seem to take pride in how many barely recognizable coins we can accumulate and may have a couple hundred we have not quite ever managed to identify.&nbsp; I say your first task should be to expose yourself to as many coins as possible and figure out what YOU find appealing - not what any of us like.&nbsp; I am a general collector with about a dozen sub-specialties that account for about half of my purchases.&nbsp; I started over fifty year ago and have way too many coins.&nbsp; You may find every one of my coins absolutely worthless but that is OK because there are well over a million other coins for you to consider.&nbsp; I do not recommend Roman Imperials to be first or last.&nbsp; I do recommend my web pages that show a sampler of coins I found interesting enough to own and words I believe will help you to understand and communicate with others like the people who post here.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a></p><p>Welcome to Ancient Coins!&nbsp; Have fun!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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