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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1895135, member: 19463&quot;]I believe this same mindset appears in most collecting fields.&nbsp; There are also Lincoln cent collectors who have a 1909S VDB and a few others but see no reason to have a hundred other dates that could be found in circulation.&nbsp; &nbsp; There is something about the mind that takes up a collecting hobby that is attracted to the rare rather than the workhouse coins.&nbsp; One favorite book of mine is Robert Tye&#039;s <b>Early World Coins and Early Weight Standards</b>.&nbsp; He comes nowhere near having all the coin types in the pre modern era but the ones he includes represent coins that actually supported commerce in their day.&nbsp; There are choice exceptions which I can&#039;t explain but he is more likely to show a Gallienus and a Tetricus as representatives of their times and makes no mention of Quietus or Laelianus.&nbsp;&nbsp; It leads to a challenge we each might take:&nbsp; If you had to represent all &#039;Ancient Roman&#039; coins with only ten coins, which would you choose?&nbsp; Perhaps there should be one Aureus and a few silvers but I imagine most would/should be pretty common coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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