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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8019606, member: 110226&quot;]My collecting priorities have focused over the past 40 years or so on trade coinage, that is, coins that have been accepted, on a large scale, across countries, kingdoms and regions.&nbsp; This interest began with collecting Spanish colonial and mainland 8 and 4 reales coins, both milled and hammer struck.&nbsp; For ancients, the focus has been on Athens and her owls, both Athenian and imitative.</p><p><br /></p><p>A secondary priority has been on individual coins that have artistic and historical import.&nbsp; For artistic coins, the focus has been on the tetradrachms of Syracuse, when I can afford them.&nbsp; For coins of historical significance, the Roman sestertii and Roman provincial coinage are a favorite of mine, with the many interesting combinations of emperors and empresses with a variety of reverse themes from a number of interesting cities (provincial coinage).&nbsp; The imperial series of sestertii are hard to beat in the respect.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to give the impression that I limit the term &quot;artistic&quot; to the coinage of Syracuse, whose merits are undisputable.&nbsp; I find even crudely produced coins often have their own artistic merit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Minimalist art, 2,100 years ago:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390440[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A portrait with a modernist touch:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1390442[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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