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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2836558, member: 87200&quot;]Like others have said, there is no right or wrong way to collect ancients. When I was a kid, I started out collecting coins of particular rulers with a goal of having a coin for each emperor, no matter how ephemeral they might have been. Because of my budgetary limitations, I ended up getting lots of 3rd century coins with a few 4th century coins mixed in, I also had about half of the &quot;twelve caesars&quot; but I had to save up more for these coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I stopped collecting for 25 years and only started again in 2014 - this time with the large uncleaned lots that somehow have made it onto the web. I also was astounded with the number of online resources available to help one identify coins. I heard about wildwinds.com and started using that. After three years of buying hoards (each hoard had about 250 coins in them) I started to get tired of cleaning them up and the methods involved (though admittedly it can be fun for awhile and I did find a few hidden gems, but not very many).</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this forum in April when a supplier I was using in the UK who dealt in hoards decided to stop selling. A google search led me here and I joined the forum in April. Since I joined I started gaining an interest in the Greek Imperial coins of the various Hellenistic cities, they often have interesting portraits and wonderful reverse types from mythology.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I am still attempting to gain a coin of each ruler but have branched out a bit into other varieties, and I think I&#039;m going to focus on the Greek Imperials (and Roman Egypt) for the next few years. So, no matter what coins you end up collecting just remember that this is a fun hobby at the intersection of archaeology, art history, and history itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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