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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4572524, member: 74282&quot;]I&#039;ve been collecting basically only Roman Republic for about 5 years now, and collected a little bit of everything for a year before that. My collecting focus has evolved a lot over that time: first it was &quot;what interests me&quot;, then I got interested in deeply researching the coins I collected which for me naturally lead to a specialty because as I learned more, I went from only wanting a few RR bronzes to suddenly wanting a bunch of different styles, mints, etc. That lead to collecting imitations as well as I found them a fascinating divergence from the official issues, particularly because of the challenges in studying and collecting coins with seemingly far less organization than the official issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;ve continued collecting, it has swung back the other way: I lost interest in the imitations and many of the provincials because I felt I was collecting too much again and wasn&#039;t focused enough on collecting good, worthwhile examples of my common coins. My plan always was to sell those collections to ultimately fund my mainline RR collection anyways, so I decided to simply accelerate that and am in the process of that now. At this point, what I collect is basically the earliest coinage of the Roman Republic right up to Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only other thing I really collect on an opportunistic basis are emblematic Greek silver coins. Right now, I just have an owl, but I plan to add a handful of additional coins in the future. My motivations are different with these coins, and the goal is less about collecting comprehensively and finding rare varieties but instead to simply have a handful of nice examples of common coins from another period of history I find interesting. I haven&#039;t even really bothered with buying the books for these coins since I don&#039;t really plan to collect them in such a way as to require the latest references(nor do I have room for those), I just want a few pretty coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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