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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2728894, member: 46237&quot;]Interesting perspective. I suppose if one is putting together a world coin catalog and knows nothing of the specifics of the country, one simply lumps everything together by the apparent coin type, with sub-types for subsequent planchet changes. But this is a coin-centric view.</p><p><br /></p><p>A collector isn&#039;t typically just collecting a bunch of individual coins, they are collecting sets, and so the cohesive grouping of coins becomes significant. To understand how to group coins, and to understand the coins themselves, one has to understand the history of when the coin was struck, and the historical and cultural significance of the iconography and legends on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>To understand the coins in my sets, I mapped each type out on a timeline where the years they were struck (not necessarily dated) are highlighted. By correlating this information along with planchet composition changes, sets naturally emerge, typically along boundaries with wars and major political or governmental changes. For types with date gaps, sometimes it becomes apparent (like in the examples I gave above) that while the coins are of the same type, the coins on one side of the gap are a part of a different set than the coins on the other side of the gap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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