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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4535108, member: 19463&quot;]I think what it comes down to is that I am as bored by weight standards as EWC3 is of Roman history and art.&nbsp; I agree that it is better to collect the common coins that played a part in commerce but my main interest in coins is for what is engraved on the blanks rather than the blanks themselves.&nbsp; I suspect the reason I do not have a silver tanka of Alauddin is that I would not recognize one if I found it in a junk box and Frank Robinson was not selling off a pile cheaply at the end of one of his lists (those two being the source of most of my later coins.&nbsp; I feel I have a reasonable selection of later (all Islamic coins are later) coins but have never gotten up enough interest to buy things I did not find interesting in a language I do not read well enough to display right side up.&nbsp; I ID them by comparison with images but rarely know which parts name the mint as opposed to the ruler or the date.&nbsp; That is frustrating.&nbsp; Ten years ago, I tried to get interested and even bought things I only could ID because of Mitchiner, Deyell and two by Tye (EWC and Jitals).&nbsp; I failed and have not added any Islamic coins in the last decade unless they were in a junk box or group lot.&nbsp; We all collect what we find interesting.&nbsp; Nero was at least that to me but hardly a role model.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have this one labeled Al ud din Muhammed II but really have no idea if that is correct.&nbsp; It was from a Junk box in 2010. Like many Romans, similar names confuse beginners (and I am that!).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1122910[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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