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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1486306, member: 39084&quot;]Forgive me if this topic has been discussed before, but I&#039;ve only recently stumbled upon this site.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious about whether or not most of the collectors of ancient coins have a theme or focus for their collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my case, I struggled for about two years when I first started collecting, since the breadth and depth of ancient coins (Roman, in my case) is so large that a collector couldn&#039;t possibly hope to have a &quot;complete&quot; collection (whatever that means) of ancient coins.&nbsp; Unlike, say, collecting all the Lincoln-head cents of the U.S., you just can&#039;t collect one each of all the sestertii of the Roman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I ended up focusing on the obvious but historically rich theme of the 12 Caesars, and am progressing toward my ultimate goal of having one each of the major denominations for each Caesar (with the obverse always being a portrait of the Caesar) -- as, sestertius, denarius, and aureus.&nbsp; Admittedly this focus is a bit of a cliche, but for me it really has helped to focus my collecting.</p><p><br /></p><p>What does everyone else do?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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