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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 7787039, member: 24754&quot;]Don&#039;t mean to beat a dead horse, but any collection that you enjoy makes sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, ancient coin collecting isn&#039;t so much about the coins, but the stories that I can tell people in reference to the coins. The story of Caesar, Pompey, Antony, Octavian, Cleopatra, etc, etc seems more salient to people when looking at bust coins created in their likeness during the time that the events occurred.</p><p><br /></p><p>With all of this in mind, the denomination, rarity, nature of the reverse, lifetime/posthumous, etc, etc aren&#039;t important to me. My only goal is the get 1 coin of each player with the best bust presentation that I can afford. The lay people that view my collection won&#039;t care so much about the meaning of the attribution, they just want to see an artist&#039;s rendition of what the person looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see how it would be fulfilling from a personal perspective to put together a type set for a specific Emperor, or specialize in a specific denomination. But for lay people looking at the collection, I feel that it would be less interesting. The presentation would be &quot;This is a coin of Marcus Aurelius, and another, and another, ......&quot; or &quot;This is a Sestertius, and another, and another, ......&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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