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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1764826, member: 39084&quot;]De gustibus non est disputandum. (For those of you who don&#039;t understand this, it&#039;s an ancient Roman saying; look it up.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m not sure that I&#039;d use &quot;noble&quot; to describe the motivation behind any collection -- not just coins, but other collectibles as well. Is it more noble to collect Miro&#039;s art than Picasso&#039;s? I happen to like Miro better than Picasso, although most &quot;art experts&quot; would point out that Picasso is considered a greater artist. This doesn&#039;t matter to me -- Miro&#039;s style just has greater appeal to me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Similarly, while the seemingly disproportionate focus on the 12 Caesars may be mostly due to Suetonius&#039; writings about them, there is also the historical significance of the period immediately following Julius Caesar&#039;s assassination and the struggle of the Roman empire to figure out how it would rule, as well as who those rulers would be. So it&#039;s natural, and understandable, that many dealers and auction houses would emphasize coins from this period, which saw enormous turmoil during certain times. The comparative rarity of some coins from this period (vs. later periods where coins are continuing to be discovered, e.g. in Great Britain) makes it more appealing to some collectors, similar to those Lincoln cent collectors whose holy grail might be a 1909 S VDB in MS67. Again, this reflects the personal taste of those collectors as well as overall market forces.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>BTW, thanks for using the correct plural (Caesars, not Caesar&#039;s, which is the possessive form of the noun)![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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