Afternoon all,
Greetings from West Yorkshire. Brand new to the hobby and having lurked around a couple of collecting forums over the past few weeks / months I happily stumbled upon the mine (mint?) of wisdom that is predecimal. Thought I'd hang around here for a while.
As with all newbies, I've been trying to pin down my focus / interests a bit (albeit not too narrowly.) Contemplated diving head first into ancients but received a number of warnings that it's an area that's particularly unforgiving to the beginner - with tourist fakes and forgeries abound.
Picked up a few decent books, including a couple of Rotographic titles and was thinking of picking up 'Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire,' if anyone has any feedback on that one?
Initially, I'm leaning towards the faded grandeur of the British Empire and thought that putting together a modest collection of coinage from around the empire from a given year (e.g. 1900) would be a decent place to start and would encourage further study.
I've already picked up tonnes of information from this forum but any advice on the above would be greatly appreciated.
Ta / Mark