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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3324806, member: 57463&quot;]<font face="Georgia">Ancient Joe&#039;s &quot;Parameters for Your Collection&quot; alluded to an interesting problem.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">&quot;A recent trend in US coins has been more minimalist, focusing on a &quot;Box of 20&quot; where you limit your collection to only 20 coins. This would be excruciating for ancient collectors but it fits with a popular trend...&quot;</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">It is pretty easy for me. I started in numismatics in 1992 with US. I quickly settled into ancients in 1993. In 1999, I went to work for <i>Coin World</i> and discovered that I really am not a collector and I got rid of almost everything except the dozen or so that I could use as educational examples. </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">(As a result of a college class in geology 2007, I have small board of nine mounted fossils. Last night, I met with my astronomy club outreach at a local elementary school with my 3-inch refractor because the suburban parents could afford it easily to see if their kid is really more interested in that versus orchestra or soccer.)&nbsp; </font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><b><font face="Arial">BOX OF ONE DOZEN ANCIENT COINS.</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia">1. Miletus 1/12 stater electrum c. 550 BCE.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">2. Miletus 1/12 stater silver c. 550 BCE.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">3. Abdera hemi-obol c. 480 BCE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">4. Athens Owl c. 450 BCE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">5. Sinope &quot;Diogenes&quot; stater&nbsp; c. 400 BCE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">6. Alexander stater c. 300 BCE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">7. Rhodes drachmon c. 280 BCE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">8. Rome Mercury/Prow Sextens c. 211 BCE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">9. Rome Cato the Younger Quinarius </font></p><p><font face="Georgia">10. Rome Hadrian denarius</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">11. Rome Marcus Aurelius Sestertius</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">12. Rome Julian the Apostate AE</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">Pretty much tells the story...</font></p><p><font face="Georgia">(And, over the years, I have continued to add other interesting numismatic examples to meet other themes, such math &amp; science, aviation, and authors/publishing.)</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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