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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1487194, member: 26302&quot;]I agree with everyone here, (well we ARE a small little group here). </p><p><br /></p><p>I collect coins mainly to force myself to learn more about the history. I simply know myself, and know if I have an item I am much more intellectually curious about the era than if I don&#039;t. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for coins, I am always open to a coin that speaks to me, but most of those I have bought became basis of mini-specialties. My first specialty was Sassanid followed closely by Hepthalite. Both of these designs I just loved. From there I pursued Byzantine for a while, especially anonymous bronzes of which I completed a set. All of the while I liked ancient chinese so pursued them at the same time. Eventually, I noticed I had coins from all over the silk road except for the &quot;middle&quot;. As such, I am now pursuing Central Asian, particularly sogdian. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, that is sort of my path. I never really laid out pursuing Roman, but since they are so much more common than what I pursued I have collected maybe 1000-1500. Of a subset, I would pursue &quot;art deco&quot; looking early 4th century pieces, and I have bought some for that goal. The rest of my roman are basically opportunistic buys, as well as greek coins, just coins calling out my name but not really in a structured collection. Examples of this would be my Cleo VII bronzes I bought mainly because I thought they were good deals. Other examples of good deals would be the large group I just bought at CICF, I bought them because I simply thought they were too good of a deal to pass up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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