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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1488363, member: 9204&quot;]I find myself specifically drawn to things that are poorly studied. I think it&#039;s because I really do enjoy cataloging pieces that others can&#039;t. So I collect the tesserae. Obscurity was an undercurrent in my other areas too. I had studied imitations of Claudius, as well as later imitations of the Claudius II and Tetricii, but realized I couldn&#039;t do any ground breaking work without working closely with or being a metal detectorist. And when I collected Chinese, I loved trying to classify the ubiquitous wu zhu coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Realizing that you can define your collection is but one step in many. For me, it went like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>- decide not to collect key dates, due to cost</p><p>- realize that the only physical difference is a tiny letter/umber, abandon collecting by date completely</p><p>- realize that the same is true of different coinages, collect absolutely whatever pleases me</p><p>- diverse, interesting collection</p><p>- discover that, while high-power, diverse collections are noticed when they are sold, only the truly in-depth collections are noticed for years after. (ie, BCD, Bonhoff, etc)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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