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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3032761, member: 82322&quot;]On another thread [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] suggested &quot;buying appealing coins that are available when they are available rather than saying &#039;my next coin will be a Hadrian sestertius&#039;&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I go to a coin show I am looking for the best coin of type I don&#039;t already have.&nbsp; I usually pass on underpriced incredible coins if I already have an example in F.&nbsp; In this way I am very much a hole-filler and would have a much better collection if I was into upgrading.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the book <i>Greek Coins</i> by John Anthony (a different John Anthony) he warns of the danger of trying to collect specific coins.&nbsp; There are many coins so rare you are unlikely to ever come across a nice one, or a good price, during your entire life.&nbsp; Yet he was writing before the Internet.&nbsp; I am sure many of us have seen 10x or 100x as many photos of coins as John Anthony saw actual coins.&nbsp; Maybe it is possible to imagine a collection and achieve it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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