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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8019028, member: 118780&quot;]Thought I&#039;d start a thread on strategies we use to choose what we buy and don&#039;t buy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine has progressed since I started (which was last year).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Stage 1</b>: Buy every Roman emperor and Greek city state possible.</p><p><b>Stage 2</b>: Upon realizing how impossible that was, make a list of the most interesting ones.</p><p><b>Stage 3</b>: When I started to specialize in my story of &quot;Philip II, Alexander III, and the Age of the Diadochi&quot; I researched coins that I felt help tell this story. In order to not go crazy, I imposed some rules:</p><ul> <li>Should be coins attributed to specific people or groups of people, not as much cities.</li> <li>Cities are allowed if they either have significant strategic impact on the story, or if they depict an individual during that person&#039;s lifetime.</li> <li>Ideally, coins should be attributable to when that person was alive. There are exceptions: my Amastris stater is posthumous because I got it at a great price, or it&#039;s not possible to attribute a coin to that exact time (Chandragupta Maurya).</li> <li>Personal issues are preferred to &quot;In the Names and Types&quot; issues. For example, Kassander, Alexarchos, and Pumiathon minted both Alexanders and their own bronze coins. The bronze coins are preferred.</li> <li>The person must have either directly dealt with Philip II and/or Alexander III, or must have directly dealt with more than one of the principle actors after the death of Alexander III (Seleukos I Nikator, Ptolemy I Soter, Antipater/Kassander, Antigonos I Monophthalmos/Demetrios I Poliorketes, Lysimachos)</li> <li>Exceptions are possible if the coinage is remarkable (Patraos, Alexarchos, Mytilene with both Philip II + Alexander III) and tells an interesting aspect of the story during the same time period.</li> </ul><p>My rule is I&#039;m only allowed to buy coins from this list. Additionally, coins are divided into three groups:</p><ul> <li>Common - if I don&#039;t win this coin at auction, I&#039;ll see it again soon</li> <li>Rare - I&#039;ll see the coin again, but it may take 6 months to a year</li> <li>Super-rare - it could be a few years before I&#039;ll have a chance at this coin again, if ever</li> </ul><p>Only on special occasions (birthday for example) am I allowed to go for common coins. For rare coins, I&#039;m allowed to bid but how aggressive I am depends on how much I&#039;ve spent recently. For super-rare coins, I&#039;m always aggressive.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I first made the list, I had 9 coins. I soon expanded it to 18 and felt there couldn&#039;t possibly be more. I now own 53 coins in the story, covering 57 different people + places. There are 16 remaining on my list, but it&#039;s been almost a week since I added one. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few from the collection.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390320[/ATTACH] </p><p>Lysimachos, 321-281 v. Chr. Tetradrachme 287/281 v. Chr., Perinth. Kopf des vergöttlichten Alexander / Athena mit Nike-Statuette auf Cippus und Schild, Beiz. Monogramm und 2 gegenläufige Pferdeprotomen. Thompson in Festschr. Robinson (1968), -, vgl. 256 HGC 1750q; vgl. Auktion Naumann 63, 566 (stgl.) Thompson, Armenak-Hoard (=ANS MN 31, 198 - Müller, Lysimachus - Arnold-Biucchi in Festschr. Price (1998) - 17.08 g. Feine Tönung, Unpublizierte Variante (?) Kleiner Randfehler im Avers</p><p>Ex Dr Busso Peus</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390321[/ATTACH] </p><p>Macedonian Kingdom, Philip II AR Tetradrachm. Pella mint, ca 354-349 BC.</p><p>&nbsp; Laureate head of Zeus right / ΦIΛΛIΠOY, Philip II, diademed &amp; in kausia, on horseback left, raising right hand</p><p>&nbsp;22-24 mm., 13.68g.,</p><p>Ex N&amp;N Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390322[/ATTACH] </p><p>Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.08 g, 8 h), Susa, circa 296/5-281. Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEΥKOΥ Athena, brandishing spear overhead in her right hand and holding shield in her left, standing right in quadriga of elephants moving to right; above to right, spearhead; before elephants, monogram of MΩ. SC 177.2.</p><p>Ex Leu</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390323[/ATTACH] </p><p>EL Hecté 332 BCE</p><p>Mytilène</p><p>10,5 mm 12 h. 2,57 g.</p><p>Ex CGB</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390324[/ATTACH]</p><p>PAPHLAGONIA, Amastris. Circa 285-250 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 8.88 g, 12h). Head of Mên right, wearing Phrygian cap decorated with laurel branch and star / Aphrodite seated left, holding in extended right hand Nike, who crowns her with wreath, and cradling lotus-tipped scepter in left arm; rose to left. Callataÿ, Premier, Group 2, 43 (D17/R21 – this coin); RG 5; HGC 7, 356. </p><p>Ex Sigmund Collection. </p><p>Ex CNG 1999</p><p>Ex CNG 2021</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your strategies for collecting![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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