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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2153543, member: 42773&quot;]I can recount my journey into ancients - if there&#039;s any advice to be had in it, you&#039;re welcome to take it, or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a Falling Horseman bronze out of curiosity a few years ago and posted it on this forum. Doug directed me to his pages at FORVM and I read them avidly - there&#039;s an abundance of valuable information there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numiswiki also has many numismatic texts in the public domain as free downloads. Click <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Library%20of%20Ancient%20Coinage%20-%20Roman%20Coin%20Books" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Library%20of%20Ancient%20Coinage%20-%20Roman%20Coin%20Books" rel="nofollow">here</a>. There&#039;s enough reading material there to keep you busy for the rest of your life. I&#039;ve discovered that in-depth analyses spur my collecting interests - personally I like to know A LOT about my coins and the cultures they came from.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started collecting Late Roman Bronzes because you can acquire many of them in fairly high grades for not too much of an outlay. I continue to work on a high-grade type set of LRB&#039;s, and occasionally cherry-pick an interesting and rare variety.</p><p><br /></p><p>I became very interested in Nabataean coinage and even created a website to consolidate the available scholarly material and document my collection. But I don&#039;t think it&#039;s necessary to specialize in anything to enjoy the hobby. I still buy completely random coins if they pique my interest, and lately I&#039;ve been looking at ancient Indian coins with more than a passing fancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;ve been influenced by Steve to create a &quot;miniature menagerie&quot; collection - animals on coins of around 1g. So in the end, Paul M&#039;s advice, that you hear so often, applies as much to ancients as any other genre: collect what you want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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