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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 5011302, member: 86498&quot;]My collection at its peak was something like 3500 coins. I have probably sold something like 3200 of them and purchased another 300. Currently I have about 70 coins in a box waiting. These I plan to send off next spring. Currently I have about 600 coins more or less evenly divided between Greek and Roman. Like Andrew I like coins with pedigrees, though I am not quite as fussy. My latest tetradrachm of Syracuse has a pedigree going back to 2013 and my latest Aegina turtle&nbsp; back to 2000. I have mentioned a number times before that I like to use the coins as teaching tools. Thus I tend to gravitate towards certain mints in the Greek series and certain emperors in the Roman. Mints like Syracuse, Taras and Athens in the Greek series I find interesting as these mints have a long history of minting coins and are an excellent method of showing students how the coinage changed over the centuries. With Roman coins I tend to purchase coins of the emperors they would most likely be reading about. Thus I tend to buy coins of Augustus, Trajan, and Marcus Aurelius. I tend to avoid the more obscure emperors who are expensive simply because they didn&#039;t survive for very long. </p><p>Recently I disposed of this coin[ATTACH=full]1201883[/ATTACH] Aegina Stater 456/45-431&nbsp; BC 12.35 grms 20 mm&nbsp; It actually sold&nbsp; in the last CNG E Sale 480 Lot 179 This is the picture from CNG[ATTACH=full]1201892[/ATTACH] At one point I had thought of replacing it with this coin. Aegina Turtle 404-350 BC. 12.07 grms 23 mm Photo by W Hansen I decided however to keep both of them at that time[ATTACH=full]1201896[/ATTACH] I had picked up another coin and decided to finally sell it. I had picked it up at a show in Edmonton some years ago. As luck would have it I found this one[ATTACH=full]1201893[/ATTACH]</p><p>Aegina Turtle 445/4 to 430 BC&nbsp; 12.27 grms 19 mm Photo by W. Hansen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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