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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1486451, member: 19463&quot;]I believe every collection should have two parts.&nbsp; One is a specialty attempting to have all of something like your 12 Caesar set.&nbsp; The other is made of coins that spoke to you and convinced you they were neat even though they were not in your specialty.&nbsp;&nbsp; When your specialty gets bogged down and you can&#039;t see yourself adding a coin very often, you look at the &#039;others&#039; and see if there is already the start of a pattern there (perhaps Victories?).&nbsp; That is when you start specialty #2.&nbsp; You still keep an eye out for that Caligula sestertius or whatever it was that was the hard to find one but you are more active for a while looking for #2.&nbsp; If you follow this pattern for a few decades you might have a dozen specialties but the fact remains that collecting is more fun when you can find coins to buy.&nbsp; My prime specialty is the Eastern mint denarii of Septimius Severus and the last year saw one coin I did not have come to the set.&nbsp; I&#039;m glad I had a few backups since a year buying one coin would be less than fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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