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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tulipone, post: 2297083, member: 71656&quot;]Not wanting to appear defensive and I&#039;m enjoying the debate.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t into ancients at the beginning of the process but now I understand something of their process I am far more interested. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am comfortable enough to buy what I may, but without focus would I enjoy doing just that?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I live in Huntingdon, UK, birth place of Oliver Cromwell and like to collect Commonwealth coins of his era.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I like to collect 6d coins - I&#039;m not entirely sure why, but they have relevance with my childhood and I have a strong attraction to collect them from Elizabeth I through to 1970.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no link with ancients other than that folk find them.&nbsp; I never have.&nbsp; Without a focus the breadth is too wide and I&#039;d rather know more about a smaller focus than just have trophies.&nbsp; I now have a group of coins that I can research and learn something about.&nbsp; Their relevance is that I cleaned them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously I&#039;d have preferred that they all would have turned out to be gold and in perfect condition but even at the outset I knew that was unlikely.&nbsp; I wanted to learn and document my process and for just a few quid I did just that.</p><p><br /></p><p>All good in my eyes.&nbsp; No downside at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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