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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8024184, member: 74282&quot;]I buy what I find interesting, but for the most part I find all the Roman Republic coins interesting. The silver and bronze(and hopefully one day, gold) of the Second Punic War, I find <i>particularly</i> interesting from a historical, numismatic, and economic policy perspective and my goal is to collect as close to comprehensively as possible, including in some cases issues that would have the same catalog numbers but noticeably different styles(some of which I&#039;d argue should be cataloged separately in future publications). I am also interested in overstrikes so I have on occasion bought multiple examples of a type where one is overstruck and the other isn&#039;t, or they&#039;re overstruck on different types. In a few cases I&#039;ve even bought multiple examples that are fairly similar, just different dies and I felt the engraving styles were different enough to be interesting and worth having duplicates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will say that provenance definitely adds to my enjoyment and can sometimes push me over the edge on acquiring a coin or help me decide which is worth my budget between two different targets that are expensive enough that I can only chase one. I&#039;m not someone who won&#039;t buy anything that isn&#039;t pre-1970 or anything like that but all things considered, especially with auction prices what they are right now relative to most of the time I&#039;ve spent collecting I feel better about paying 2020-2021 pricing on coins with good provenances.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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