/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>57283315
>I saw a picture of these in an old book, thinking about trying to find some ancient coinage. Coins are the best

Do you specifically like the Roman Provincial tetradrachms from Egypt like your picrel of Nero? Or just the idea of ancients generally? The common Roman Egyptian tetradrachms are remarkably affordable, usually debased but still nice chunks compared ~4g and lighter ancient silvers which were more frequently used back then. For around $100 or less you can get perfectly decent Roman tetradrachms. I have a crappy one of Nero I got for $9, not pretty but in 2011 it would have been below spot price lol, hard to go wrong. Got the nicer Hadrian tetradrachm in center left of pic (and the others) in a collection of 80 pieces where the price per coin was about $6.20 each, when you get a good deal there's nothing better than ancients.

>>56826724
>10 bux total
Yeah you did fine fren, I doubt even the shittiest ones would sell for much under $10 so while that one ain't too pretty it's definitely a few steps better than some of the crap I've seen. I know you're in the "buffet" phase where you're sampling all sorts of things to learn what you like but try to remember that it's almost always better to have 1 nice $100 coin than 10 fugly $10 coins, good deals on nicer coins aren't as plentiful as deals on bottom-of-the-barrel cheapies but you want coins that make you happy to look at and fondle in addition to being historically/intellectually stimulating, the latter is nice but having the package deal is much more satisfying.

>>56712142
Please save or email to yourself this pasta, it would take someone days to really digest so you'll want the links handy when you have time to get into it:
>>56712444

>>56580526
Took a pic you might like of some of the more interesting ancient coins from that collection I got several months ago. I don't need dozens of obscure coins from Elymais (Elam) which the former owner specialized in but I'll definitely keep some nice examples for my own collection