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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 4022936, member: 80804"]"Whatever works for you" is probably the most cogent answer to this question/set of questions. Although my ordering scheme varies from era to era - eg: Constantinian/House of Valentinian era material is arranged by mint first, then within the mints by chronology, then by person, vs 12 Caesars which is person-by-person throughout - you may find a different approach makes more sense to you. For me, in this case, this will often depend on whatever scheme the particular book I use to understand that era/place employs. RIC breaks things down, arranging differently for different eras, too, so the approach can be very different from volume to volume. Basically, I try to find a logical arrangement scheme in each of my folders (similar to the roster of folders Gavin showed us) which makes sense for understanding the coins of that era/place and helps by presenting a framework on which to hang both my coins, and my research/thoughts/writings, etc.</p><p>In Greek coins, I go strictly by Geography even though a clockwise tour of the Mediterranean basin follows nothing, really, except geography, all the references tend to be arranged that way. I also make no distinction between "Greek" and "Greek Imperial" (as we used to call Provincial issues). My folder for Egypt, for example, begins with Ptolemy I and runs chronologically through the potin tetradrachmae of the Tetrarchy, unbroken except as needed for housing in multiple folders. I would prefer to begin with Nektanebo, but financial considerations are important - collecting as a relatively low-income retiree, most of the expensive stuff is way out of my range unless I had the foresight to buy it 40-50 years ago.</p><p>I find that no one, single approach fits all the categories and so I arrange each as it best makes sense to me - and hopefully to others.</p><p>One great exception to the above I discovered when I set out to assemble my website/gallery. On a website, if your software allows for easily creating new folders and ordering/reordering of the individual photos and descriptions, you can put the same coin in <i><b>multiple</b></i> places to fit it into multiple ordering schemes that happen to coincide. My Augustus/Agrippa/Croc can now be in my Greek Europe "book", my Republican/Imperatorial "book", and the further meta collection of Roman portraits on larger Æ's at the same time, although that collection exists mainly in my imagination and has been physically assembled, pulling the actual coins from multiple books, only a couple of times for special purposes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 4022936, member: 80804"]"Whatever works for you" is probably the most cogent answer to this question/set of questions. Although my ordering scheme varies from era to era - eg: Constantinian/House of Valentinian era material is arranged by mint first, then within the mints by chronology, then by person, vs 12 Caesars which is person-by-person throughout - you may find a different approach makes more sense to you. For me, in this case, this will often depend on whatever scheme the particular book I use to understand that era/place employs. RIC breaks things down, arranging differently for different eras, too, so the approach can be very different from volume to volume. Basically, I try to find a logical arrangement scheme in each of my folders (similar to the roster of folders Gavin showed us) which makes sense for understanding the coins of that era/place and helps by presenting a framework on which to hang both my coins, and my research/thoughts/writings, etc. In Greek coins, I go strictly by Geography even though a clockwise tour of the Mediterranean basin follows nothing, really, except geography, all the references tend to be arranged that way. I also make no distinction between "Greek" and "Greek Imperial" (as we used to call Provincial issues). My folder for Egypt, for example, begins with Ptolemy I and runs chronologically through the potin tetradrachmae of the Tetrarchy, unbroken except as needed for housing in multiple folders. I would prefer to begin with Nektanebo, but financial considerations are important - collecting as a relatively low-income retiree, most of the expensive stuff is way out of my range unless I had the foresight to buy it 40-50 years ago. I find that no one, single approach fits all the categories and so I arrange each as it best makes sense to me - and hopefully to others. One great exception to the above I discovered when I set out to assemble my website/gallery. On a website, if your software allows for easily creating new folders and ordering/reordering of the individual photos and descriptions, you can put the same coin in [I][B]multiple[/B][/I] places to fit it into multiple ordering schemes that happen to coincide. My Augustus/Agrippa/Croc can now be in my Greek Europe "book", my Republican/Imperatorial "book", and the further meta collection of Roman portraits on larger Æ's at the same time, although that collection exists mainly in my imagination and has been physically assembled, pulling the actual coins from multiple books, only a couple of times for special purposes.[/QUOTE]
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