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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Claudius_Gothicus, post: 8136634, member: 116315&quot;]Thank you very much to everybody who voted in the poll! I was pleasantly surprised that, more or less, almost all the coins received a good amount of votes each, because that means that I was successful in assembling a selection that contained coins that, despite their chronological and geographical proximity, were still appealing, for one reason or another, to a large group of users, which was my goal. I must admit I was surprised to see that the Gallus received so many votes, though - I was expecting the Aurelian and the Mazzini Tacitus to blow it out of the water.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an honour to hear that somebody with your level of artistic taste had a hard time choosing the top three <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I consider myself to have begun collecting &quot;officially&quot; in September of last year, as that is when I took part in my first mainstream auction, so, overall, I&#039;ve been collecting seriously for only slightly more than a year. Delimitating the boundaries of my collecting area certainly wasn&#039;t easy, though, and even today I still wonder what new subcollections I could start, if I had the chance; in the end, though, budget constraints meant that, at least for now, I&#039;ll concentrate mainly on the antoniniani of the final years of the Crisis, with the earlier Antiochene issues and the Constantinian campgates as secondary interests, and so far, considering what this more focused approach has allowed me to acquire compared to last year, I&#039;d say I&#039;ve been more than happy with this arrangement.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! The Quintillus is definitely not perfect, but it&#039;s indeed quite challenging to find such finely engraved portraits of his from the Rome mint. If it was good enough for Niggeler then this coin is also certainly good enough for me!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree, I think his final emission from Antioch contains the most interesting of all of his reverse types, due to both the historical context as well as the variety of deities that are represented. It&#039;s unfortunate that they&#039;re so rare and usually in such poor condition, which is why I was so thrilled to obtain this one, besides its rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks! My <i>numophylacium</i> of Claudius II is indeed growing quite nicely (though it will never be able to match the vastity of your Faustina collection <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!), and while most of the coins I add are minor variations that almost nobody would care about, on those rare occasions in which a <i>truly </i>interesting rarity of his turns up I try my best to obtain it. I hope that eventually I&#039;ll have enough material to write a complete reference book on Claudius II, since as far as I know nobody has ever done it, not even Johannessen, and even if RIC V Online hadn&#039;t been abandoned, I believe a physical book will always be more impressive than an online database.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you, I&#039;m glad to hear that you appreciate my efforts to specialize in a certain field! I feel like it is the collecting method most suited for somebody like me, and, besides, one of the reasons why I&#039;m attracted to the coinage of the final part of the Crisis is due to the fact that it reflects the troublesome situation of the period as well as the mystery that surrounds it, with many rare and enigmatic types as well as new varieties being discovered from time to time. I believe that it is a field that can be far more exciting that what can seem at first glance <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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