Just Started Collecting Romans - Now Worried I Bought A Fake

The coins of Constantine I are the most plentiful out of all Roman coins. On a scale of rarity his coins rank 15609 meaning the most common. This is another nice lot that you picked up they all have nice detail.

to this hobby Michael.

For your budget I would recommend buying Roman coins from Europe, if not The Netherlands, since most of western Europe and even The Netherlands are source countries for finds of Roman coins.

On ebay Netherlands you should be able to select in the Search something like "Netherlands only" for example.

I have not bought Roman coins from the Americas since 2012.

When our "Her Majesties Revenue & Custom" stuck V.A.T. on my single purchase (a very nice AE Follis of Constantius I, bought from member "BiancasDad" ironically) and then Parcel Force wanted money for "Handling Fees" this put me off totally from buying anything from outside the E.U.

I realised that Roman coins can be sourced from source countries, such as England, do not have to pay V.A.T. for even a single coin nor "Handling Fees".

It is a shame that the E.U. does these trade tricks to favour their own zone over others, as there are many fine examples of Roman coins in U.S. collections, for example.

Starting out in collecting, best to buy "locally".

Of course beware of some notorious sellers of fake "ancient" coins.

This is the list here of them HERE.

To help you out, avoid "Saxbys-Coins", an obscene lot of fakes are sold (shilled) by this seller.

Click the "Temple" jpeg, it leads to my ebay sales page.

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I sometimes have AE's of Constantine and family for sale at reasonable prices, fully attributed.
I often post to The Netherlands, it takes under 1 week.

It looks fine to me. It's a very common type and the style appears to be authentic. The busts of Constantine differ from mint to mint.

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