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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 5300609, member: 73165&quot;]I totally agree.&nbsp; In terms of ancient coins, I&#039;m very comfortable with Antonine imperial silver. I&#039;m generally fine with the rest of Antonine coinage and I can deal with first century coinage alright.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really have a good handle on anything past the 3rd century, although I&#039;m not intimidated by them.&nbsp; I own RIC 3, and I use a site that has the full text of Cohen online.&nbsp; I&#039;m able to read enough French that Cohen isn&#039;t difficult to reference.&nbsp; This is about where the center of my comfort zone ends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stuff I just don&#039;t like, or which bores me would include basically any coin smaller than 10mm diameter (don&#039;t want to drop them and lose them), Republican coinage that have any variation of the Roma/chariot motif (meh), most <i>aes grave</i> (don&#039;t know how to authenticate them), and the really debased later denarii and antoniniani (just generally don&#039;t like the look of them).&nbsp; I also don&#039;t care much for most fourrées and any of the later Roman coinage that tends to be of fairly miserable quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>What kinds of stuff would I like to buy?&nbsp; Well, everything within my comfort zone is generally fair game, and, as I mentioned, I&#039;ll buy outside my comfort zone from someone I trust.&nbsp; My <i>aes grave</i> sextans falls under the latter category, as do the couple of provincial coins I own.&nbsp; Most people I&#039;ve shown the sextans to think it looks like a bright green rock, and I can&#039;t say I disagree.&nbsp; It is definitely not a coin I sought out, but I saw it in a dealer&#039;s tray at a show, the price was acceptable, it was interesting, and I knew the guy was knowledgeable and honest, so I bought it.&nbsp; But, that&#039;s probably both the beginning and the end of my <i>aes grave</i> purchases, unless something really jumps out at me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, there&#039;s some threshold price which I&#039;m not <i>exactly</i> sure of, but which is probably around $50, below which I&#039;ll buy just about anything I find vaguely interesting.&nbsp; My one, single, solitary fourrée, a Gordian III denarius which I bought for $10 on a whim at a show, falls under this category.</p><p><br /></p><p>To summarize: the set of &quot;stuff I will buy&quot; is larger than my comfort zone.&nbsp; Stuff I will buy that&#039;s outside my comfort zone can be further broken down into &quot;stuff I will buy with help,&quot; and &quot;stuff I will buy if it&#039;s interesting and cheap enough.&quot;&nbsp; I own coins in all these categories and will probably continue to buy along these lines for as long as I continue to collect.&nbsp; Everything else is pretty much the &quot;meh&quot; category.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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