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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 8074333, member: 24754&quot;]My Roman coin collection spans from Julius Caesar through Theodosius I/Eugenius. I&#039;ve attempted to make a comprehensive list of every person for which bust coins were issued, and determined which to include in my goal collection based on relevance (Do they have a story worth telling?) and price/budget (the ultimate determining factor).</p><p><br /></p><p>My end goal with the collection is to present it in a way that would be appealing and interesting to other people. I want them to be able to easily learn about the stories and observe the corresponding coins systematically. I know that people will not want to be held captive long enough to walk them through the whole spiel verbally, and honestly, I probably wouldn&#039;t want to do that multiple times either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I figured that I needed to provide a system that would allow people to enjoy the collection at their own pace and leisure. The best solution that I could think of was to label the coins with a number/letter system and put together a book that could be printed out and bound with labels in headers that correspond to the labeling system. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a picture showing how my coins are stored and labeled, the orange and green stickers are visible on the tops. Yes, they are slabbed, but lets not make that the subject of this thread.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1401355[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Book&quot; ended up being a more ambitious endeavor than I was expecting. I&#039;ve been working on it during my free time for couple of months now and I&#039;ve only managed to get through Commodus! I was hoping that some of you might find it interesting enough to have a look, provide some feedback, make use of it, and maybe even help with the effort!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to the pdf on Google Drive. I tried to upload the Word version on Drive and Docs, but the fonts and formatting get all screwed up. If you&#039;d like an editable Word version then please provide an email address in a private message and I&#039;ll send it as an attachment.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZKmksNPwyVZ1Ksc8WpqP3sqerYN88ta/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZKmksNPwyVZ1Ksc8WpqP3sqerYN88ta/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/18ZKmksNPwyVZ1Ksc8WpqP3sqerYN88ta/view?usp=sharing</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of disclaimers:</p><p>- In one sense, I&#039;m shooting for historical accuracy, so if I&#039;ve completely misstated something factual then I&#039;d like to know (wrong date, wrong person, etc.). In another sense, I am going for sensationalism to make the experience interesting for the reader. When it comes to the more outlandish and questionably factual stories, I just state them without pretext. I do not do a lot of &quot;this probably didn&#039;t happen, but&quot; or &quot;this was probably made-up to tarnish blah blah&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>- I made this for my own use. I straight up lifted pictures off the internet and pasted them in there without attribution. I also got all of my information online (Primarily Wikipedia), and while I attempted to summarize and put things in my own words, I wasn&#039;t terribly concerned about avoiding plagiarism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said, I&#039;m not holding my breath, but I wanted to put this out there in case any of you found it interesting. If this is something that would be useful to others, and a group of us was willing to chip in some work, then we could divvy up the remaining players and get this thing knocked out!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll leave it at that for now, thanks for reading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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