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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3038602, member: 19463"]I would say a person could assemble a reasonably comprehensive set of ancient coins in only about a hundred coins. That would not get you a coin of every ruler or every city but it would allow five to twenty each from six or eight major categories which would offend specialists in each of those categories about equally. Exactly how to allocate the hundred coins would differ greatly between each of us and would expose not only our prejudices but things about which we were wholly ignorant. It might be a fun exercise but we would first have to define terms like coins and ancient. You could cut back a bit on count and cost by declaring no gold or nothing too modern to be strictly ancient. In any event you will not be getting all twelve of the 12 Caesars or each pre-coinage unround experiment unless you declare the common attitude that the only thing worth collecting is what you collect and not what the rest of us do. </p><p><br /></p><p>My 100:</p><p>20 Greek</p><p>20 Roman</p><p>15 Provincial / Quasi-Independent regions</p><p>5 Other Western</p><p>5 Barbarous</p><p>5 Byzantine</p><p>10 Near East (West of India)</p><p>5 Central Asian/Indian</p><p>10 Far East (East of India)</p><p>5 Things that just did not fit in the above </p><p><br /></p><p>No one will agree with all of those. If you saw how I broke each of those down further, you would see even more disagreements.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3038602, member: 19463"]I would say a person could assemble a reasonably comprehensive set of ancient coins in only about a hundred coins. That would not get you a coin of every ruler or every city but it would allow five to twenty each from six or eight major categories which would offend specialists in each of those categories about equally. Exactly how to allocate the hundred coins would differ greatly between each of us and would expose not only our prejudices but things about which we were wholly ignorant. It might be a fun exercise but we would first have to define terms like coins and ancient. You could cut back a bit on count and cost by declaring no gold or nothing too modern to be strictly ancient. In any event you will not be getting all twelve of the 12 Caesars or each pre-coinage unround experiment unless you declare the common attitude that the only thing worth collecting is what you collect and not what the rest of us do. My 100: 20 Greek 20 Roman 15 Provincial / Quasi-Independent regions 5 Other Western 5 Barbarous 5 Byzantine 10 Near East (West of India) 5 Central Asian/Indian 10 Far East (East of India) 5 Things that just did not fit in the above No one will agree with all of those. If you saw how I broke each of those down further, you would see even more disagreements.[/QUOTE]
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