Uncleaned. Where To Buy

I bought mine (in the other thread) from an ebay auction, but the guy has a website where he sells them also. Here's the site:
http://www.ancientromantimes.com/index.html
He seems like a pretty honest seller...definitely not one of those "GOLD FOUND!!" guys that's trying to scam you. You'll see actual pics of the coins you'll receive. He sells different levels...higher quality with details already showing and lower with mystery coins in the dirt/crust.

I'm happy with my purchase. They were cheap...about $1 or so per coin. Delivery was pretty quick. He answered my questions before I bid (I was deciding between buying from the website or his ebay auctions).

The coins themselves (that I got) are probably not going to be anything spectacular, but they're what I wanted to try this for the first time. If I ever decide to do it again, I'll probably spend a little more and go with someone like Purse of the Legionary:
http://coins.shop.ebay.com/Coins-An...3911.c0.m282
Bigger coins, more detail, etc...you're going to spend more up front, but likely will end up with better coins once they're cleaned.

"Gold found!" is not necessarily the sign of a shill - some buyers actually think they've found a genuine ancient gold coin.

- The buyer simply assumes yellow metal = gold. Many people don't realize that brass is not a modern invention - the ancient Greeks and Romans sometimes made brass coins. Some less scrupulous dealers take an ancient brass coin and clean it until it's golden and shiny, fooling the newbies into thinking it's gold.

- Some slightly more scrupulous sellers buy bulk lots of tiny mediaeval Indian gold fanams - little tiny flakes of gold turned into a coin, they're only worth a few dollars each - and use them to salt their uncleaned lots. That way, people can genuinely say they "found gold". Not ancient gold, and not particularly valuable either, but still gold.