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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sand, post: 7757841, member: 118540&quot;][USER=117420]@Mac McDonald[/USER] It&#039;s funny, how a person&#039;s tastes, can change, or broaden, over time.</p><p>Until 2018, I only collected US coins, and English coins.</p><p>My favorite US coins, were the trade dollar, and the large cent.</p><p>My favorite English coins, were the old English large copper pennies, which were minted as early as 1790 AD or so.</p><p>Then, one day, I was reading &quot;The Fellowship Of The Ring&quot;. I read a passage, about how Bilbo gave some &quot;silver pennies&quot;, to some young hobbits. After that, I started to collect English silver pennies, which were minted as early as 700 AD or so, because the English silver penny, was the ancestor of the English copper penny. However, the earliest one, that I ever purchased, was a Richard The Lionheart silver penny, from 1195 AD or so. The earlier ones are pretty pricey.</p><p>Then I read, that the English silver penny, was sort of a descendant, of the Roman denarius. So I started collecting Roman denarii, which go back to 211 BC.</p><p>Then, I read, that the Roman denarius, was sort of a descendant, of the Greek drachm. So I started collecting Greek drachmae, which go back to 450 BC or so.</p><p>Then, I decided, that the Greek drachm, was sort of a descendant, of the Greek stater. So I started collecting Greek staters, which go back to 650 BC or so.</p><p>Then, I decided to try to bridge the gap, between my Roman denarius of 100 AD, and my English silver penny of 1195 AD. That&#039;s when I got into Byzantine coins. I became fascinated, with the Byzantine Empire, as a child, after seeing a Byzantine exhibit, at a museum. I decided to collect mainly Byzantine copper coins, because Byzantine silver coins were minted in small quantities, and were not used much, by average Byzantine citizens. And Byzantine gold coins, while used by the Byzantine upper class, are expensive to collect.</p><p>So that&#039;s how I started collecting ancient coins. So, since 2018, I&#039;ve mostly collected ancient coins, except for an excursion into Spanish pieces of eight cob coins from the New World.</p><p>So watch out. The ancient coins, may one day, come for you, and take you away, on an unexpected journey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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