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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3032953, member: 82322"]Spring is here and that made me remember that I had been considering submitting something on my collection of Medusa coins to [USER=78411]@Nicholas Molinari[/USER] 's <i>KOINON</i> journal. I went through my notes on how I decided what was possible for a Perseus and Medusa collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last year I gave a talk for my club on ancient coins depicting Perseus and Gorgons/Medusa. My database has 78+288 types in it, so for a collector of this series (I know of about half a dozen present and former) those are the "holes".</p><p>[ATTACH]755874[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]755875[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>No human could fill all the holes as there are uniques and also types that only exist in museums. As I gathered that list I found types that were unpublished. That is the best kind of hole to fill: a hole you dig yourself. I ended up buying several unpublished types and about a dozen unpublished denominations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3032953, member: 82322"]Spring is here and that made me remember that I had been considering submitting something on my collection of Medusa coins to [USER=78411]@Nicholas Molinari[/USER] 's [I]KOINON[/I] journal. I went through my notes on how I decided what was possible for a Perseus and Medusa collection. Last year I gave a talk for my club on ancient coins depicting Perseus and Gorgons/Medusa. My database has 78+288 types in it, so for a collector of this series (I know of about half a dozen present and former) those are the "holes". [ATTACH]755874[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]755875[/ATTACH] No human could fill all the holes as there are uniques and also types that only exist in museums. As I gathered that list I found types that were unpublished. That is the best kind of hole to fill: a hole you dig yourself. I ended up buying several unpublished types and about a dozen unpublished denominations.[/QUOTE]
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