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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1658815, member: 26302&quot;]Great coin VK. I love coins like that, coins that may not be impressive looking at them, but are impressive for the history they carry. I have one from Carthage, and have an Ostrogothic issue from Rome. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not to offend anyone else, but to me such a coin is the mark of a advanced numismatist. Anyone can appreciate the beauty of a nice tetradrachm, or a gorgeous RR, or a splendid sestertius. It take more of a student of coins to appreciate a tiny Visigoth AE, or a offcenter nabatean bronze, or a crummy LRB, or even a miserable excuse of a coin that is most sogdian pieces. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I find most here can do both, love both awe inspiring as well as pedestrian coins. However, I find a lot of ancient collectors to be those who pursue large, attractive coins, and have maybe one reference book. I am more of the &quot;lots of crappy little bronze POS coins, and hundreds of references&quot; kind of guy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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