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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4314127, member: 110350&quot;]I think I&#039;ve made clear in my time here that I&#039;m particularly fond of Roman Republican denarii with reverses showing animals other than horses.&nbsp; If one goes through all the plates in Crawford Vol. II, it&#039;s pretty clear that out of approximately 550 numbered types (plus the many sub-types and variations within those numbers, never mind the hundreds -- if not thousands! -- of different die varieties with various control marks), there are only about 30 or so coins that fit that description.&nbsp; I already have about a dozen of them.&nbsp; So if I have any vague &quot;goal&quot; at all in collecting Republican coins, it&#039;s to be able to find and buy nice examples of the other 18 or so someday, however many years it takes.&nbsp; (Not counting the Julius Caesar denarius with the elephant; I doubt I&#039;ll ever be in a position to spend that much money on a single coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to have all the SAECVLARES AVGG antoniniani with animal reverses of Philip I and his family; I have all of them (plus Philip I&#039;s elephant ant) already except for the one with the wolf on the reverse. (I don&#039;t care about the one with the cippus, even though it&#039;s technically part of the series.) So that shouldn&#039;t be difficult to complete.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, my only goal is to continue to buy coins that appeal to me, with an attractive appearance outweighing anything else in importance.&nbsp; Sure, I&#039;d like to have coins with as many different emperors and empresses (and their family members) as is reasonably feasible given the limited amount I&#039;m willing to spend on any one coin, but there&#039;s no particular point at which I&#039;d feel I was &quot;finished&quot; (or not).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not very interested in Roman middle or large bronze coins, and doubt I&#039;ll ever expand my focus to encompass them on more than a very sporadic basis.&nbsp; The ones that are in good enough condition to appeal to me are simply too expensive.&nbsp; I spend enough money already on Roman coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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