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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 3717841, member: 14873"]I think I pretty much align with the philosophical approach to Ancient coin collecting espoused by Doug Smith. I started off eighty years ago just before the outbreak of World War II (3 September 1939) with a gift coin from a relative - I cannot even remember what it was - some non-descript late Roman bronze I believe. But I wasn’t an Ancient coin collector by any stretch of the imagination - the War put an end to such pursuits and I forgot all about that coin. It wasn’t until after the war, in the late 1940s, that I began to research Roman Imperial coins and their history in a serious way. From the beginning my interest was in the historical association of the coins I began to collect in the early 1950s - the “condition” and appearance of them was of secondary importance, in fact, I really liked them to have a used look and feel - to possess a patina that typified “the surface of an object that has grown lovely through use and the passage of time”. I considered, and still do consider, all of my Roman coins to be historical artifacts rather than beautiful artistic objects (I hope that comes across in a non-denigrating way to collectors who hew to a different collecting philosophy) ………………… I am getting tired and will have to continue this later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 3717841, member: 14873"]I think I pretty much align with the philosophical approach to Ancient coin collecting espoused by Doug Smith. I started off eighty years ago just before the outbreak of World War II (3 September 1939) with a gift coin from a relative - I cannot even remember what it was - some non-descript late Roman bronze I believe. But I wasn’t an Ancient coin collector by any stretch of the imagination - the War put an end to such pursuits and I forgot all about that coin. It wasn’t until after the war, in the late 1940s, that I began to research Roman Imperial coins and their history in a serious way. From the beginning my interest was in the historical association of the coins I began to collect in the early 1950s - the “condition” and appearance of them was of secondary importance, in fact, I really liked them to have a used look and feel - to possess a patina that typified “the surface of an object that has grown lovely through use and the passage of time”. I considered, and still do consider, all of my Roman coins to be historical artifacts rather than beautiful artistic objects (I hope that comes across in a non-denigrating way to collectors who hew to a different collecting philosophy) ………………… I am getting tired and will have to continue this later.[/QUOTE]
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