How to Use My eBay Store

This is a tutorial that is very necessary for anyone that decides to search my store for coins. Having reached over 10,000 items, it is advisable to know and utilize the features that are built into each of my listings. My goal is to make it easy and fun to put together even a large coin collection. A lot of work and thought has been placed in order to make it be best experience possible for you to find exactly what you may be interested in and at the best possible price. There are collectors for all types of varieties of coins, so every title is easy to search for and narrow down to a specific focus of interest.

You can easily find this guide again in the GUIDE on HOW TO USE MY STORE link at the top of my store navigation pages and below the self-evident banner on all my listings.

Quick store search functionality is available in all my listings, and the banner with the large letters is self-evident that it will take you directly into my store.

Bookmark My Store

Visit my store home page: http://stores.ebay.com/Authentic-Ancient-Greek-Roman-Coins and press the keyboard buttons (on PC) CTRL and D simultaneously to pull up your add bookmark screen to easily find my store in the future.

How to Find Specific Coins Again

< - The "i" number is unique item number that I use and is in the title of all my listings and also above the picture in them. This allows you to write down this number and find the coin easily in the future. As an example, you can type i46026 into the www.eBay.com search box and this coin would come up should you want to find it in the future.

The Listing Page

Notice the item number is repeated above every picture. Also note that if you click on the picture of the coin it will enlarge.

Below the picture, you will see certain terms underlined. The underlined terms are links to search my store for that specific term. The benefit is that if for example you want to look at all of my coins of a certain ruler, you can click it and find all of them. If you encounter a Roman emperor, and click on the underlined term you can see all of his coins. The underlined termed of "Roman Emperor" brings you to a page that lists every single emperor (at least almost) and the same for the underlined term "Roman Empress". So the benefit is that you can browse the emperors of all time periods without having to type in the terms yourself, or knowing their names. It can be a learning experience on it's own. This is also a great way to build up an entire collection of Roman emperors of all time periods.

The descriptions are done with top-level professionalism. The weight is given in grams and the size is given in millimeters. 1 cm = 10mm.

The reference gives you places where you can find a coin with the design pictured on the coin in some specific book on the subject. When I write the term var., it means variant or similar to another example I have found. Some coins do not have any reference works with the same obverse and reverse types as too many different varieties exist, or in some cases it may be an unpublished type. This is especially true for the Roman provincial issues and some Greek coins. Roman Imperial coins usually do have references.

Left Navigation Bar

There are a lot of navigation links that are given on the left-hand side of my store page for you to scroll through. Take some time to familiarize yourself, and find many important links given on important topics you may be interested in, or for you to learn about. First you will see different categories given. After that, you will see a variety of topics that you may also find very interesting. As you scroll, you will find a variety of topics that you can search my store for by clicking or go to an article or more information on that subject.

Upper Navigation Bar

This bar takes you to all sorts of articles on the topic of ancient coins. If you click the "Roman Collecting Guide" at  the top, you will find a list that is complete or almost complete with every single personage who had a coin minted for them. This allows you to quickly narrow down one of each emperor and empress as an example. This is possibly the most affordable way to collect because you can look through many examples quickly.

Search Screen

You can type in specific terms and it will find that term in the title. If a term may be in my listing but not in my title, click the box that says, in titles and descriptions.

NOTE: eBay auto-corrects some spellings, so for some of the terms listed, or you search for, you may need to click the [ Return to original search ] link to actually see the coins available.

Sorting by Price

If you click on the text "Price" (which is blue and clickable and has a triangle pointing up or down) you can can switch between sorting the search terms by lowest or highest price.

With the benefit of being able to use all the search functionality, articles, top-level descriptions it is my goal for you to have the best possible experience. Giving the most amazing time-saving 21st century tools of convenience for this hobby stretching the millennia. Enjoy.