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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4914, member: 57463&quot;]I actually got my first ancient from Littleton about 1973 and I did not like it, so I sent it back.&nbsp; It was a Gordian III denarius and it was not very exciting.&nbsp; I was not really into numismatics then and way more interested in precious metals.&nbsp; Twenty years later, I finally got the numismatic bug.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I started with classical American type -- Barbers, Seateds, etc. -- because I thought that Greek and Roman coins were unaffordable.&nbsp; My teenage daughter was a page at the Michigan State Numismatic Society Show.&nbsp; Dropping her off and picking her up, I got to see Greeks that were almost cheap by comparison with midrange US Type -- VF Seated Quarters, high state Morgans, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw ads for ancients in Numismatic News and wrote to the dealers.&nbsp; I bought my first coin from the The Wolfes of Prescott, Arizona, a Miletos 1/12 silver stater.&nbsp; I subscribed to The Celator. </p><p><br /></p><p>When I collected, I assembled small silvers, worth a day&#039;s wages from the towns and times of famous philosophers.&nbsp; As a subset, I developed an interest in the town of Cyrene.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped collecting coins in 2000 and sold off just about all of it.&nbsp; I still have an Owl, of course, and a drachm of Cyrene, and a Ptolemy tet that got dropped and broken, and a few more. Basically, I jost collect knowledge.&nbsp; My first work appeared in The Celator in 1993 and I have been writing for them all along.&nbsp; I just submitted an article about the Emergency Coinage of Athens 406 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another subset that I never completed was &quot;The Five Good Emperors.&quot;&nbsp; I still have a denarius and a sestertius of Marcus Aurelius.&nbsp; The big copper goes well with a large Republican sextans Mercury/Prow that I got because Mercury/Hermes was another theme I pursued.&nbsp; Probably my most republican Republican and a coin I still have is a quinarius of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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