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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Calpurnia, post: 1628721, member: 35419&quot;]My name is Ron.&nbsp; I started collecting about 1955 trying to fill up my Lincoln penny folders out of circulation and got all but 4 Lincolns. In the summer of&nbsp; 1975 I went to a small local coin show and ending up trading a bunch of silver dollars for a Trajan sestertius. Later that year&nbsp; I answered an ad by John Barton(Owl ltd) in The Numismatist and ordered a Trajan Denarius in EF with great style and portrait and another coin.&nbsp; Barton let me pay them off over 6 months and I received a full page letter from him in which he said the Trajan was a minor masterprice of Roman coinage. Over the next 2 years i&nbsp; bought other coins from him on time payment, including a EF fine style P. Clodius Turrinus, which I kept for almost 30 years before selling it on Ebay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also about 1977 I bought a copy for $95 of Crawford&#039;s Roman Republican Coinage, which I still have and began to specialize in RR coins. Back then I could buy nice VF for $30 and was amazed that I could buy an almost pure silver coin 2,000 years old for that amount and the Crawford book was full of detailed information, so I concentrated on RR denarii. I also collected Hadrian and Trajan and Antonine denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had one theft of coins and I had sold most of the others by 2006. I became interested again in RR coins in 2010 and have purchased about 10 coins since. I am on a limited budget and can afford few coins now. I actually specialize in RR books, and in addition to the Crawford book I also have an original Grueber&#039;s BMCRR&nbsp; , as well as RR auction catalogs such as Haeberlin 1933, Leo Benz and Bank Leu 17; I am missing Sydenham RR book. With books I don&#039;t have to keep them in a bank or worry much about theft. </p><p><br /></p><p>I especially like the RR denarius of C Calpurnius Piso l f frugi(Cr 408) and have 3 different varieties out of over 485. Since I can only add 2 or 3 new coins each year, I barely qualify as a collector, but I enjoy reading the reference books and posts on line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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