Ancient Coins: Buying coins online
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- With the recent pandemic and widespread lockdowns, the coin collecting hobby has gone online. For someone not familiarized with how much an ancient coin costs, the mere act of knowing where to start researching for prices can be difficult.
Here´s a quick guide on how to scout the retail and auction markets for the realistic prices one should be paying for an ancient coin, without falling for predatory sellers or getting a fake coin from a dubious seller.
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Useful Links:
Ancient Coin marketplaces I recommend:
www.ma-shops.com
www.vcoins.com
Auction websites I recommend:
www.sixbid.com/en
www.numisbids.com
www.biddr.com/
www.coinarchives.com/
www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=res...
www.cngcoins.com/PricesRealiz...
Great websites for learning more about coins:
augustuscoins.com/ed/
coinweek.com/category/ancient-coins/
www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Ancient%20Coin%20Collecting%20101
rg.ancients.info/guide/ancients.html
www.coinspot.org/ancient.html
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This is an excellent video, especially for those starting out. It was for me. "Buy the best coin you can afford" (within your budget of course) and "Buy a coin you'll still like years later" has prevented me from buying coins I wish I hadn't. TY.
That is an excellent overview of the process. There are no price sheets for ancients!
WOW, alot of videos put out by you, Been binge watching your videos,, some three years later.
There are some 4 years of content here. Hope its been useful and entertaining for you :)
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Thank you for your videos!!
Thumb's up for another helpful and educational presentation. I only wish I could give it two for the additional exhaustive resources in the 'Description'.
Love the content..love the presentation...love the accent...thanks for great information
Well thank you very much! Glad you like it :)
@@ClassicalNumismatics Hope you have in mind a partnership with Kings And Generals and maybe Historymarche.
Would love to see your content in a Viasat History type chanel.Maybe think as a 3 min shortclip between historical documentaries on diferent channels
Hopefully as my subscriber count rises people might pay more attention to ancient coins. There's so much coins can teach us :)
Awesome, thanks
Thanks for the information.
Thank you for a great video! You inspired me to make a video on ancient coins. Keep an eye out for it!
Thats awesome! If you need advice on entering the world of ancients, send me a message on IG, classical_numismatics. I'll gladly help you out with any questions
Thanks for this video
What I can regommend is to copy the pictures of the coins your are intressted open it with a photo software and examine the coin and comapre it with sources like wildwinds. This can help you to see what some other might not see and it might help you to avoid fakes. Especially when you can compare the die, the legends with an original. Besides this it helps you to determine if the avers and the reverse of the coin make sense or ist it a mule or a fake like the modern fakes from Gordianus III.
I am very happy today, having won my first Roman (Republic) coin in the Savaco 100 auction! It is my very first ancient coin! But on another topic, I had a question in regards to certain information I saw within the description area of a Greek coin auction at another auction house. So if you can tell me, what does the "1h" mean in the following description -- "9.15g - 22.6mm - 1h." I know what the g and mm refer to but I am not sure what the 1h means.
Congratulations! Hopefully thats the first of many coins!
Thats the die shift between obverse and reverse! Think about the clock. A 12h would mean the "Up" side of the obverse is aligned to the "Up" side of the reverse, while a 6h would mean they are perfectly flipped.
1h means the reverse and obverse are almost aligned, but the reverse is slightly rotated.
@@ClassicalNumismatics .... thanks very much!
Can set a video about byzantine coins
I have seen a number of .coins offered for such a ridiculously low price that it should be obvious that the coins fake. Many of the coins looks like their quality is about the same a play money sold at the local dollar store and just scream fake.
Are E Bay auctions safe? I'm a new collecting and Ive been collecting since October of 2020, recently I have been going on ebay and making my auctions there with currently half success. Is their any other places you recommend that I can purchase Roman coins at all? Thank you much.
I´d recommend you only venture on eBay once you are a bit more knowledgeable on coin collecting. I´ve got a couple of videos on how to get started, and how to buy coins online, have a look at them, they give you a nice summary.
@@ClassicalNumismatics Okay thank you.
Don´t buy ancient coins on e-bay, there are 2 honest regular sellers, and 20 crimanals regular sellers, selling fakes for good money and making lifes out of that criminal activity. Auction houses are the safest way, almost every day you have ancient coins selling on Catawiki, i usualy by from the seller Owl & Wolf, who usualy have very beautifull items, and also there´s several auctions every month on other specialized auctioneers.
@@ClassicalNumismatics what about ones that are super common and cheap to begin with?
These auction houses all require references to register. Three references from auction houses i have purchased at before. Which seems strange, because not everyone has bid at auctions before, unless ebay counts?
From personal experience, if you have purchased from Vcoins, MA shops, or any established and registered store, and you can show them a paid invoice, that is acceptable too.
Its mostly a way to verify your identity
4:02 Oops :)
Constantius was called to battle the barbarians and had to leave on a rush :)
@@ClassicalNumismatics i heard a pause in your voice as if you're mourning the great emperor constantius
How could I know if the auction houses are overpriced? and is really NGC graded drives the coin prices up? Hope you could notice me :D
Usually, if its a decent auction house that goes by lots, they may have 4 or 5 of the same coin, and you can see the high and low bids. It will be clear as day that usually the coins with the highest definition and no flaws may sell for x2, x3 even x10 of ones that have fuzzy details, cracks, and other issues. You can then compare the low and high end to vcoins and other large sellers to see if it is inline with the auction. Granted, some auctions in other countries will be at a premium due to currency exchange rates, for example, I would highly suggest not bidding on certain EU auction houses (especially the famous ones) because what may be a decent price in Euro could be ridiculously expensive in dollars (British pounds are also do not exchange well with dollar). CHF, or Swiss Franc, also dont exchange well, and I find Swiss auction to be the most overpriced of all the ones I come across.
Tnx for this vids im now starting to collect ancient coins, i need tips from you, hope u can help me
Join us on r/ancientcoins and on our discord server, so we can chat and help you out.
Of course, feel free to ask away here as well, I´ll be happy to help
@@ClassicalNumismatics how to join?
www.reddit.com/r/AncientCoins/
@@ClassicalNumismatics i sent a photo in the link u sent, can you help me? My id name there is PERANG_PINAS.
@@ClassicalNumismatics r f u have facebook can you message me? Ny fb is PERANG PINAS. thanks a lot
I wonder why shipping is so expensive in MA shops, I can ship an insured package to the moon with such prices
Sadly it seems like shipping overall has become much more expensive. Even stuff on ebay locally has pretty steep shipping costs.
Add to that the fact they usually ship with tracking, etc, and the result is that overly expensive cost :(
@@ClassicalNumismatics Yes unfortunately! Sellers there have GREAT pieces and compared to most places quite good prices, but I still believe they should give an option of a lower quality shipping, maybe without tracking or lower insurance, I truly do not want to pay $55 to ship an small package.
Liberty 1982 .how much?
no freaking idea lol
Thank you for making this channel. Can you do a video on Coins from Rhodes, Selling coins, and Buying on Ebay. Thx!
Look at my other videos! There are videos tackling every single topic you asked for.
Don't trust ebay.
What payment method does VCoins accept, I cannot find a clear answer online.
What was the coin at 1:51 ?
Lysimachus Tetradrachm
I have a question, what are all of the safe sites that will give me real coins?
Check out my beginners playlists, I have a bunch of videos where I mention some good dealers.
4:01 lol
Hi
I'm having indian ancient coin
Hi I have a 1888 old coin here if you want to buy just pm me