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<p>[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4022080, member: 99239"]Arranging chronologically makes the most sense when the chronology is well known. This is doable well enough during the Flavian era so for a collection like yours this works great. Subcategorizing by denomination is also a common sense approach.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I would resist buying into there being a necessarily superior approach. As humans we tend to categorize based on patterns that make processing information easier for ourselves but since there are infinite variables so there are as many different ways of prioritizing whatever is perceived as the primary aspect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Greek catalogues tend to sort geographically clockwise around the Mediterranean starting with the Iberian peninsula which is about as arbitrary an approach as you can get but it's become so ingrained that some new system would probably have a hard time being accepted. I don't know to be honest... Greek coinage is gobbledegook to me!</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry.... rambling on on a Friday night while nursing one of these lol</p><p>[ATTACH]1057706[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Suarez, post: 4022080, member: 99239"]Arranging chronologically makes the most sense when the chronology is well known. This is doable well enough during the Flavian era so for a collection like yours this works great. Subcategorizing by denomination is also a common sense approach. But I would resist buying into there being a necessarily superior approach. As humans we tend to categorize based on patterns that make processing information easier for ourselves but since there are infinite variables so there are as many different ways of prioritizing whatever is perceived as the primary aspect. Greek catalogues tend to sort geographically clockwise around the Mediterranean starting with the Iberian peninsula which is about as arbitrary an approach as you can get but it's become so ingrained that some new system would probably have a hard time being accepted. I don't know to be honest... Greek coinage is gobbledegook to me! Sorry.... rambling on on a Friday night while nursing one of these lol [ATTACH]1057706[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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