Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="Finn235, post: 8020711, member: 98035"]1) See large lot2) Recognize something good in said lot3) Buy it with dreams of flipping and playing "red paperclip" to owning a dream coin or financing the next Disney vacation4) Get the coin in hand5)[ATTACH=full]1390335[/ATTACH] This strategy has accounted for essentially my entire 200-coin Greek collection, my "Roman collection addendum" binder (about 15 sheets X 20 slots, mostly full), and probably half of my "eastern" binder as well. For my Roman collection, I sadly hit the ceiling where very few <$1,000 rulers remain, so I've decided for now to double back and flesh out the areas that interest me, namely the Nerva-Antonine and early Crisis eras. Some rulers simply can't be represented in a "one each" manner, so I let myself expand in that direction. One rule that's been in place since the beginning is that any Roman coin usually has to have an excellent portrait. For my Indo-Sassanian collection, I'll buy it if it either 1) is a type I don't have yet, or don't have many, 2) shows something that is usually out of sight on the die, or else an interesting or unusual style, or 3) if it's clearly part of a hoard, I buy as many as I can afford.[/QUOTE]