Roman Coins

not at all

Aureus are still mint condition because they are made of gold, few were not founded though and remain in tact

>>71552400
Most of them are fake tho

File: _91408619_55df76d5-2245-41c1-8031-07a4da3f313f.jpg (29KB, 660x574px) Image search: [Google]

29KB, 660x574px

>buy a bunch of old Chinese coins from an antinques market in Chengdu, China
>$200 worth in total
>come home to give them to my dad who is into old currency and shit
>turns out not a single one was real
>they were all steel nuts that had been flatted and then dipped in some chemical to give the appearance of rust
>send an angry email to lonely planet who recommended the antique market to foreigners
>tfw

>>71552400
You'd have to ask a numismatician. Try /his/

Kind of how I thought. Gold ones cost 3-4 figures, I'm not that enthusiastic for some 3D memes.

>>71553651
I'll try

My dad is into this sort of thing, mostly paper currency, however he has a respectable collection of coins.

I recommend getting a catalog from a company that specializes in this sort of thing rather than ebay. You're too much of a noob to go through ebay. Also visit coin stores and conventions to see the stuff in person and compare it to what you see in catalogs.

Personally I don't understand the collector mindset. Seems like a stupid money drain. You can always see this sort of thing in a museum.

By the way, those coins look super fake. Looks like someone threw acid on them or left them in a bottle of coke. Roman and Greek coins were made remarkably well, so well that barbarians often made exact copies of them not to counterfeit them, just because their designs worked.