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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2267418, member: 74282"]My story is pretty similar to [USER=76111]@Carthago[/USER]'s.  I started out collecting everything ancient, just trying to create a collection as varied and interesting as possible. As I picked up each new coin I'd study that area quite a bit, the big collectors of those types, the famous sales, etc. I decided to focus on the Roman Republic after reading through the RBW catalogs(NAC 61 and 63) even though I think I had all of 5 RR coins in my collection at the time. I was fascinated by what I saw and the intro by RBW really resonated with me. Before long I was selling off my US and world coins to buy more RR, then a handful of my Greek coins and slowly more and more of my ancients that weren't within my newfound focus. As of today I'm up to 20 RR including coins I'm still waiting to receive, which is still not a huge number, but I don't regret my decision at all. Focusing on a single area isn't for everyone, but I really enjoy it, and collecting the Republic in bronze, silver and gold is such a huge area that I could never hope to be anywhere near "complete" so there will always be more to collect and more to learn.[/QUOTE]