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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3277717, member: 85693&quot;]I really enjoy this post - collecting as a sort of organic process.&nbsp; I went through some photos of 2018 purchases and thought maybe this would be a good place to share a few of my favorites - favorites for appearance (which in my case has nothing to do with condition). </p><p><br /></p><p>Horses!&nbsp; A Macedonia Phillip II and one from Carthage.&nbsp; Common, scruffy, but nobody did horses quite the way Greek artists did:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865800[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]865801[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Colors!&nbsp; Here are two very common Byzantine Folli of Justin II &amp; Sophia.&nbsp; Both turned colors over the centuries that give them their own unique appeal:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]865803[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865804[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Art for art&#039;s sake.&nbsp; Here are 2 of my favorites - a Severus Alexander Provincial showing a really nice Marsyas, and an Egyptian tetradrachm of Gallienus with a Nike that I find really exciting - the kinetic captured in stasis (huh?&nbsp; I&#039;m no art historian - but looking at this I want to be).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865806[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]865807[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Imperial Mug.&nbsp; Here is an Antoninus Pius and a Tacitus - run of the mill coins with the kind of portraits that make collecting Roman coins so exciting to me. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]865809[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865810[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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