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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4309723, member: 72790"]I started collecting back in the late 1950's when one could pick up some really good stuff in circulation, silver dollars, buffalo nickels, the occasional barber silver coins and thus my major interest was in that area because one could get neat stuff at face value. I picked up my first ancient, a Roman denarius of Nerva in 1961 in really nice condition for $10 from a Philly department store, Gimbels I think. Since my original university major was the Classics, that coin and my studies merged quite well. I changed my major to social studies later (a lot more teaching jobs there than in the Classics in the 1960's) and thereafter my collecting was concentrated in the subjects I would be teaching, so it was often US coinage from Colonial to post Civil War Reconstruction. But as I also taught World History (with a heavy emphasis on Ancient history) I continued with ancients as well. Teaching AP European history brought to me an interest in late Medieval history to the 20th Century, but there seemed to be less use for coins or currency in that subject. Once retired and free to indulge my interests, I returned to ancients and my interest in the Classics, even brushing up on my Latin and Greek. I have found that the most educated and intelligent and knowledgeable and enthusiastic of numismatists have been those who collect ancients, at least as part of their collecting hobby. I think that may be because they two are as much interested in the history of the period as its coinage. In short, for me anyway, I have always combined those two interests, numismatics and history and ancients is the area where the two best intersect. In a world wide context I think that is the reason interest in ancients has remained, perhaps even grown as both a hobby and a study as well as a business.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4309723, member: 72790"]I started collecting back in the late 1950's when one could pick up some really good stuff in circulation, silver dollars, buffalo nickels, the occasional barber silver coins and thus my major interest was in that area because one could get neat stuff at face value. I picked up my first ancient, a Roman denarius of Nerva in 1961 in really nice condition for $10 from a Philly department store, Gimbels I think. Since my original university major was the Classics, that coin and my studies merged quite well. I changed my major to social studies later (a lot more teaching jobs there than in the Classics in the 1960's) and thereafter my collecting was concentrated in the subjects I would be teaching, so it was often US coinage from Colonial to post Civil War Reconstruction. But as I also taught World History (with a heavy emphasis on Ancient history) I continued with ancients as well. Teaching AP European history brought to me an interest in late Medieval history to the 20th Century, but there seemed to be less use for coins or currency in that subject. Once retired and free to indulge my interests, I returned to ancients and my interest in the Classics, even brushing up on my Latin and Greek. I have found that the most educated and intelligent and knowledgeable and enthusiastic of numismatists have been those who collect ancients, at least as part of their collecting hobby. I think that may be because they two are as much interested in the history of the period as its coinage. In short, for me anyway, I have always combined those two interests, numismatics and history and ancients is the area where the two best intersect. In a world wide context I think that is the reason interest in ancients has remained, perhaps even grown as both a hobby and a study as well as a business.[/QUOTE]
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