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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3567542, member: 76194&quot;]When I started I would buy lots of coins every month, as ancients were new to me and when you are starting from scratch you buy anything and everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I matured, I decided there were areas I didn&#039;t want to collect, as the ancients field is too broad and it&#039;s too easy to collect anything and everything, and end up with a disjointed pile of coins from all over the ancient and medieval world that don&#039;t really fit together and tell a story. As a result I&#039;ve ended up downsizing my collection and selling over 40 coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>These days I am only collecting Greek, Roman, and Celtic coinage. I no longer do medieval or eastern/Asian coinage. Even then, Roman, Greek, and Celtic is still a very broad area, so further narrowing might not be a bad thing...but I&#039;ve decided to stick with these areas (though I&#039;ve divided them down further into additional categories) and through careful purchases I&#039;m finally starting to create a fairly representative and unified collection for each category. It was a hard decision, but I just could not be a jack of all trades and collect every single ancients and medieval category from 600 BCE to 1500 CE and do it all justice.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, these days I&#039;ve become a little more discriminatory in my purchases, as a result my rate of acquisition has plummeted to an average of 1 a month. Many times I think I found a coin I wanted, but slept on it and decided to pass up on it in the morning because it did not have the right aesthetics for my tastes, or the legends/patina had issues I can&#039;t live with, or&nbsp; simply was not the right fit for what I was looking for. </p><p><br /></p><p>I still have some coins in my current collecting categories that I would not buy all over again for one reason or another (mostly early purchases when I was new), but I&#039;ve decided to keep them and move on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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