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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7915431, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]. I do like and appreciate Greek coinage; it&#039;s just that I would bankrupt myself if I tried to put together a decent-sized collection of them on top of everything else! Especially given how overwhelmingly large a field it is.&nbsp; I do buy them every now and then, though -- more silvers than bronzes -- but have only about 20 in all (two of them bought many years ago), several of them what I like to call &quot;Republican Provincial&quot; coinage. These photos are just to give an idea; they certainly don&#039;t do the coins justice:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367543[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367544[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s only 20 out of a total of 289 ancient coins that I have at the moment, along with 171 Roman Imperials, 63 Roman Republicans, and 35 Roman Provincials. (I may &quot;specialize&quot; in RRs in the sense that I find them fascinating, and always find more to write about individual types, but I&#039;ve actually bought almost three times as many Imperials in the four years or so I&#039;ve been actively collecting ancients.)</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the Boeotian shield stater is also from a Harlan J. Berk Buy or Bid Sale, the Corinth Stater is ex. Roma Numismatics, and the two coins from Thessaly in the bottom row come from the BCD Collection via the Triton XV auction.&nbsp; I bought the Alexander drachm at Harmer Rooke back in 1986, and my (extremely) budget Athenian Owl from John Jencek at a NYINC in 2007.&nbsp; Because I know so much less about ancient Greek than Roman coins, I tend to depend more on provenance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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