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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I_v_a_n, post: 2508133, member: 81539&quot;]Russian coins collectors saying: &quot;if you’ll present to the child 5 kopecks (great and beautiful copper), he will be a collector of coppers, but if the ruble, the collector of rubles.&quot; These are two major, substantially parallel worlds in the Russian numismatics. When I was 13 years, the neighbors in the village found a treasure of pre-revolutionary coins and grandmother bought me a 1896 ruble and 50 kopecks. I have been collecting coins of the Russian Empire for about 20 years, and has gone through many stages from the simplest coins to the rubles and poltinas with a budget of a few thousand dollars per coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think almost all of us started with the collection of old coins of the motherland.</p><p><br /></p><p>At some point I noticed that I am watching with the interest at the auctions offers of ancient Greek coins. At that time I knew nothing about them, but they were just beautiful and simply catch my eyes on them. The principle of my collection has always been that every coin has to tell his story. This means that if I bought the Peter 1 ruble, I have to know the history of his reign, to tell others. And at some point, I suddenly thought, what a great story can tell, for example, a coin of Alexander the Great? But when I bought my first ancient coin and looked at her from the edge, it was like a world switched from 2D mode to 3D mode.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since then, I lost all interest in the coins of the New Age.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just imagine the problem that faced by any engraver, such as the 18th century, for example. What was the task? Show the official portrait of the emperor… state symbols and etc... Enough clear and concrete task. </p><p><br /></p><p>And what was the task of the master, who prepared dies for this stater? To embody the image of Beauty, Youth, Sunlight, Art, etc. - all, what was the personification of Apollo. Immortal Divine… transcendence essence, that the master could only imagine. What is the solution of this problem with abstract an infinite field of unknowns, which resulted in the appearance of perfection on the coin?</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a large difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>And by the way, I think that when someone begins a collection of ancient coins, this means that he came out of the &quot;matrix&quot; of catalogs and lists into the real collectors life. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533071[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]533072[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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