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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5004694, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m sorry to hear that you skip over the part of ancient history that I prefer but, when I was your age, I was more into Archaic Greece and earlier Roman through the Severans so I had a gap period also.&nbsp; I believe part of the reason is that schools teach ancient history from periods well represented in the literature and the primary documents of the later Romans leave a lot to be desired.&nbsp; I hope you eventually will decide to study a bit of the middle and later periods. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do suggest you read past posts on Coin Talk where you will find thousands of coins explained by their owners.&nbsp; We are ending the end of the year and some of us may be posting lists of our &#039;top ten&#039; coins acquired in 2020 although this has been a rough year for some of us due to Covid related changes in the coin supply.&nbsp; My 2019 list is here:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/year-end-list-2019-dougsmit.351985/#post-3947830" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/year-end-list-2019-dougsmit.351985/#post-3947830">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/year-end-list-2019-dougsmit.351985/#post-3947830</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to see others, look at posts in December of the last several years.&nbsp; There are many posts here where one of us not only shows a coin but explains in some detail what it was about that coin that made us decide it was a &#039;must have&#039; acquisition.&nbsp; If you like to see coins, I suggest spending time researching the online listings of coins sold.&nbsp; My favorites are provided by CNG Coins and acsearch.com but you can type specific keywords into Google and find a lot of drool-worthy coins.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coins_sold.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coins_sold.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coins_sold.aspx</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In the last few years there has been great progress made in online postings by major collections not the least of which is that of the British Museum.&nbsp; The American Numismatic Society has a good set of pages, too.&nbsp; Their site links as well to coins in other museums making their site even more useful. </p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/search" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/search" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/search</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course all these sites require learning the quirks of the people (mostly academics) who made the choices on how they worked.&nbsp; If you are really desperate, you could even visit my personal website which has over a hundred pages on ancient coins (some as old as you, I suspect).&nbsp; My favorites are those intended to teach a Vocabulary needed to appreciate the coins:</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 2013 I posted what I then considered my favorite 99 1/2 ancient coins.&nbsp; The last seven years has seen several new additions bump some of these from their position but I no longer update that site.&nbsp; The photo below shows just one side but the link takes you to discussions of each and the larger photos.</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favs.html</a></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/favgroup.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Welcome to coin talk.&nbsp; If you have questions but do not ask them here, there is nothing we can do.&nbsp; I remember when &#039;nerd&#039; was an insult.&nbsp; To many of us today, the term is an honor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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