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<p>[QUOTE="akeady, post: 4311873, member: 83175"]Good going, Rasiel!</p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus should be a relatively cheap slot to fill, impressive to have a Clodius Macer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few goals:</p><ul> <li>For the past several years, I've mostly been pursuing Roman Republican coins - pretty much anything in Crawford, I try to obtain. I've got about 700 at the moment and may get reasonably close to the goal in another 20 years. It won't be possible to collect everything - some coins are made of Unobtainium and there are many side avenues down which to get sidetracked - e.g. I have 10 Cr. 340/1 denarii now with different control marks. Maybe side collections to investigate all the control marks and of course the Eraviscan imitations, which are interesting too. I think I will be buying fewer coins as time goes by, but probably spending as much, or more. I'm not sure when I'll decide I'm finished with the goal - maybe when the remaining coins are so expensive that I can afford only one or two a year.</li> <li>Emblematic coins of Greek cities - this is a slow-moving goal - Pegasus of Corinth, Wrestlers of Aspendos, Owl of Athens, Turtle of Aigina, etc., etc. In this effort, I've probably got reasonable examples of coins of most of the better-known cities, but there are always more cities and varieties - e.g. the several owl types, plus the earlier sea turtles and later land tortoises of Aigina and why stop at Corinth - many related cities had Pegasus on their coins too.</li> <li>Coins of Sicily - just because they're beautiful - someday, maybe I'll get a decadrachm and blow the budget for a year or two. A few years ago, I had a week between jobs and went to Sicily and drove around, to see where the great coins came from. I visited the Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum in Syracuse and its a wonderful collection of coins - I counted 29 decadrachms in one display case (the number stuck in my head). I had thought that the Kimon tetradrachm of Syracuse was the most beautiful ancient coin; after visiting, I've changed my mind - Herakleidas's tetradrachm of Katane struck me as even better. Can I get one? Possibly - though right now it would mean flogging most or all of my other coins to pay for it.</li> <li>Irish coins - on the back burner, but I usually add a few a year - aim is to get something representative from Hiberno-Norse to the Euro.</li> <li>UK coins - I started off collecting pre-decimal Irish and UK coins, so still add to the UK ones from time to time - the only coin I bought at a recent show was a very nice BU 1887 florin.</li> <li>Celtic coins - only a few a year, but I guess it counts! If the ancient Irish had minted coins, this would be my main area.</li> </ul><p>The whys of the collecting goals are hard to reason. I randomly fell into Roman Republican coins partly by buying several coins because I was giving a talk at the local coin society and wanted some coins to illustrate it with and got sucked in. I bought a few coins of Emporion and books about them because I saw a roadside sign "Ruinas" one day in Spain near Girona and spent a lovely day getting sunburnt clambering over said ruinas. The more modern coins I collect to some extent because they're how I started out and the pre-decimal coins are quite attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="akeady, post: 4311873, member: 83175"]Good going, Rasiel! Maximinus should be a relatively cheap slot to fill, impressive to have a Clodius Macer. I have a few goals: [LIST] [*]For the past several years, I've mostly been pursuing Roman Republican coins - pretty much anything in Crawford, I try to obtain. I've got about 700 at the moment and may get reasonably close to the goal in another 20 years. It won't be possible to collect everything - some coins are made of Unobtainium and there are many side avenues down which to get sidetracked - e.g. I have 10 Cr. 340/1 denarii now with different control marks. Maybe side collections to investigate all the control marks and of course the Eraviscan imitations, which are interesting too. I think I will be buying fewer coins as time goes by, but probably spending as much, or more. I'm not sure when I'll decide I'm finished with the goal - maybe when the remaining coins are so expensive that I can afford only one or two a year. [*]Emblematic coins of Greek cities - this is a slow-moving goal - Pegasus of Corinth, Wrestlers of Aspendos, Owl of Athens, Turtle of Aigina, etc., etc. In this effort, I've probably got reasonable examples of coins of most of the better-known cities, but there are always more cities and varieties - e.g. the several owl types, plus the earlier sea turtles and later land tortoises of Aigina and why stop at Corinth - many related cities had Pegasus on their coins too. [*]Coins of Sicily - just because they're beautiful - someday, maybe I'll get a decadrachm and blow the budget for a year or two. A few years ago, I had a week between jobs and went to Sicily and drove around, to see where the great coins came from. I visited the Paolo Orsi Archaeological Museum in Syracuse and its a wonderful collection of coins - I counted 29 decadrachms in one display case (the number stuck in my head). I had thought that the Kimon tetradrachm of Syracuse was the most beautiful ancient coin; after visiting, I've changed my mind - Herakleidas's tetradrachm of Katane struck me as even better. Can I get one? Possibly - though right now it would mean flogging most or all of my other coins to pay for it. [*]Irish coins - on the back burner, but I usually add a few a year - aim is to get something representative from Hiberno-Norse to the Euro. [*]UK coins - I started off collecting pre-decimal Irish and UK coins, so still add to the UK ones from time to time - the only coin I bought at a recent show was a very nice BU 1887 florin. [*]Celtic coins - only a few a year, but I guess it counts! If the ancient Irish had minted coins, this would be my main area. [/LIST] The whys of the collecting goals are hard to reason. I randomly fell into Roman Republican coins partly by buying several coins because I was giving a talk at the local coin society and wanted some coins to illustrate it with and got sucked in. I bought a few coins of Emporion and books about them because I saw a roadside sign "Ruinas" one day in Spain near Girona and spent a lovely day getting sunburnt clambering over said ruinas. The more modern coins I collect to some extent because they're how I started out and the pre-decimal coins are quite attractive. ATB, Aidan.[/QUOTE]
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