Ancient Coins: My Tips for Collectors

Today, lets sit down and have a little chat about collecting. Let me give you some tips I personally apply to my collection, following them have made me a better numismatist, and they should help you too!
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[@edwinvdv7030]

I am obsessed by Roman coins that are (almost) uncirculated. They are expensive, but (fortunately) they don't show up often, so the temptation of buying too many also isn't too big. During an average year I buy about 3 denarii. Sometimes (once every 2 or 3 years?) I buy an exquisite aureus, but that's also because I don't care about driving an expensive car....

[@sloppyjoe1315]

I have just recently got into coin collecting were would be a good reliable place online to shop

[@KarenKostanyan-do8hm]

У меня есть one cents 1961D 1964D 1968D 1970D и до 1999p коллекция продаю

[@oscarkaltschmidt-tc2jc]

There are tons of cheap and wonderfull coins out there. I personally dived into those coins and avoid any expensive coins. I think that is the best way to start. Once you are experienced you can focus on whatever catches your attention and you can start collecting the more expensive coins. For reference cheap is < 15 USD. Expensive is > 50 USD. Keep your median entry price below 25 USD. And with those price levels you can buy almost everything!. Forget coin grading until you are experinced. Also when you get experince Fakes will not be a big issue any more.

[@oscarkaltschmidt-tc2jc]

example. How did a sphinx end up on a coin in a city in the middle of Andalucia, Spain?... Well...the concept came from mesopotamia, traveled to the ports of Phoenicia. The phoenicians were displaced by the Persians and founded Carthage... And rhe Carthaginias conquered the south of Spain... And the Carthaginean general Anibal Barca married a prnincess of this spanish city, named Castulo. And Castulo started using a Sphinx on their coinage. Am I right?. Dont know for sure. But this type of connections adds a lot to the fun of numismatics. And there are tons of connections numismatist are able to establish by watching coinage patterns. As I said, its a infinite journey and a lot of fun!

[@oscarkaltschmidt-tc2jc]

By studying naval architecture and commerce and ports you start understand how art, culture, power, etc moved around in the world...

[@oscarkaltschmidt-tc2jc]

I made a very steep entry in ancient numismatics and what helped me a lot to tie everything together was studying naval architecture. Power, trade and coins are always related. Who rules the seas and water ways has the power and rules commerce.

[@ismailerhelvaci5505]

can you tell me some good online sites for buying ancient coins?

[@jaybabcock4557]

I buy what catches my eye. If it has eye appeal to me I will try to buy it.

[@CB-on8bd]

I was looking purchase my 1st Roman coins.

[@fogster8886]

I have met 2 ancient numismatics ... and they both dont slab their coins ( send it for grading at ngc or pcgs) why is that .... one of them said he really likes touching the coin and the other one says ancients grading is really unreliable unlike us coins

[@BillabongJim]

I have recently found out about the hobby, before this i thought all ancient coins costed like 10k a piece. But after looking for soviet coins and finding out about how cheap old Russian coins from 1500s-1800s are, i think i might start collecting ancient coins. My main interest is Russian, Roman, and Greek coins.

[@sh4969]

I don't have any acient coins yet, just brought 1898 Nicholas II Russia silver 1 Ruble coin.

[@horushardwicke2077]

What is the coin shown at

[@batman18181818]

You obviously spend a lot of time and effort in making these videos. Thank you. Very educational. I just returned to the hobby after selling my collection years ago -- to say I have "sellers regret" is a huge understatement. What was I thinking?! My advise to new collectors is that when you lose interest in your collection because of life's many distractions to realize that it is probably just temporary and that the collecting "bug" will return. Just give it some time. On the "slab" vs. "non-slab" question, I too would prefer to handle the actual coins rather than a piece of plastic, but because of my age (66) I must think of what will happen when I pass. My adult son is not interested in history and I don't want that Julius Caesar denarius I just purchased to end up in a garage sale with a $4 sales sticker on it. For that reason I've decided to slab any high-end coins with detailed instructions to him including an auction house he should consign them to, but otherwise not to slab, I really would hate to see ancient collecting devolve into the current state of U.S. coin collecting. The history and significance of our "key dates" are far more interesting than those of, say, Morgan silver dollars with such and such mint marks. Maybe we should beat them at their own game and have the grading services assign "history grades" to coins, such as: "Morgan Dollar History Grade 1," Nero Denarius History Grade 5." That would create some buzz at coin shows!

[@user-tn6zn7hn5e]

What do you think of test cuts on coins? I've been avoiding them so far, but I'm getting better lately

[@Yakitak]

Very good message on budgeting. Coin obsession and so many auctions make this hard to do, but so important

[@RoccoBuglisi]

Bellissime Monete 🎉

[@vfc1860]

Humility is a strength. Keep up the good work. You are my go to KZbin source

[@jonathanaristone2468]

Great Video as always Leo, you have done well for 5 years. I started 60 years ago when a work collogue from Germany offered me a Maximianus Follis for 50 cents. The rest was all uphill from there. I sill love and cherish my Imperials collection.