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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3723043, member: 19463"]My favorite college professor once told me that a proper goal in life is to know a little about everything and everything about a little. Neither of these goals is achievable any more than you can count all the way to infinity or chill something to absolute zero but there is nothing wrong with setting our goals as approachables rather than achievables and never expecting to finish. There is no failure when there is no finish line. </p><p><br /></p><p>In coins, I translate this to mean I should collect a coin or two of many descriptions and as many coins as I can from my specialties. I cheat and refuse to buy anything that I find completely boring or priced so high that I would have to compromise my collections in more desired areas. I do not collect modern coins (I have a few but most have been with me for 50 years when I still found them interesting). I do not collect popular 'rarities' in high grades (Biblical, Caesar portraits, gold unless it has something going for it other than being gold). I do collect anything that speaks to me saying, "Buy me, please." The number one thing on my want list is any interesting coin that I did not previously know to exist but that I believe I should have known had I not been too blind to see it before. </p><p><br /></p><p>My specialties:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Coins of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna 193-195 Eastern mints (including unofficial)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]997970[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>2. Coins of Septimius Severus 193 Rome </p><p>[ATTACH=full]997971[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>3. Alexandrian</p><p>[ATTACH=full]997972[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>4. Technically interesting, odd or weird coins including but not limited to errors (only ancient/medieval)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]997973[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>5. Coins that I never expected to see but somehow got lucky</p><p>[ATTACH=full]997974[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have posted each of these here so many times that I must apologize for showing them again. Groups 1 through 4 are represented in my collection by 50-1000 coins. Group 5 is much less frequent but very special to me. All together the five groups make up about half of my coins with the other half being 'general' and 'asked nicely' types. When I get between 50 and 100 coins in an area, I ask myself if it is time to declare a new specialty or to back off saying 'enough'. My interest in late Roman has been falling off to the point that I have sold or given away some that I once would have kept. It lost its status as a 'specialty' but several LR coins are still included in other specialties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3723043, member: 19463"]My favorite college professor once told me that a proper goal in life is to know a little about everything and everything about a little. Neither of these goals is achievable any more than you can count all the way to infinity or chill something to absolute zero but there is nothing wrong with setting our goals as approachables rather than achievables and never expecting to finish. There is no failure when there is no finish line. In coins, I translate this to mean I should collect a coin or two of many descriptions and as many coins as I can from my specialties. I cheat and refuse to buy anything that I find completely boring or priced so high that I would have to compromise my collections in more desired areas. I do not collect modern coins (I have a few but most have been with me for 50 years when I still found them interesting). I do not collect popular 'rarities' in high grades (Biblical, Caesar portraits, gold unless it has something going for it other than being gold). I do collect anything that speaks to me saying, "Buy me, please." The number one thing on my want list is any interesting coin that I did not previously know to exist but that I believe I should have known had I not been too blind to see it before. My specialties: 1. Coins of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna 193-195 Eastern mints (including unofficial) [ATTACH=full]997970[/ATTACH] 2. Coins of Septimius Severus 193 Rome [ATTACH=full]997971[/ATTACH] 3. Alexandrian [ATTACH=full]997972[/ATTACH] 4. Technically interesting, odd or weird coins including but not limited to errors (only ancient/medieval) [ATTACH=full]997973[/ATTACH] 5. Coins that I never expected to see but somehow got lucky [ATTACH=full]997974[/ATTACH] I have posted each of these here so many times that I must apologize for showing them again. Groups 1 through 4 are represented in my collection by 50-1000 coins. Group 5 is much less frequent but very special to me. All together the five groups make up about half of my coins with the other half being 'general' and 'asked nicely' types. When I get between 50 and 100 coins in an area, I ask myself if it is time to declare a new specialty or to back off saying 'enough'. My interest in late Roman has been falling off to the point that I have sold or given away some that I once would have kept. It lost its status as a 'specialty' but several LR coins are still included in other specialties.[/QUOTE]
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