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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8024287, member: 110350&quot;]A couple of emendations to my original post, based in part on what some others have said.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of all the different types of ancient coins I&#039;ve collected over the last few years, I have to admit that my favorite is probably my collection of 60+ Roman Republican coins. Partly because they&#039;re so varied and visually interesting, and partly because I&#039;m fascinated with the symbolism and historical meaning attached to so many of them. There&#039;s so much that can be learned about individual coins and moneyers. Far more than is typically the case for individual Roman Imperial or Provincial coins. Which is why my write-ups tend to be so much longer!</p><p><br /></p><p>(However, I have no interest in&nbsp; Republican bronzes or in anonymous denarii from the period before moneyers were named on the coins. So I do not compete in those areas with our several members who are interested in them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In mentioning only my focus on interesting reverses, I don&#039;t want to leave the impression that attractive obverse portraits are unimportant to me, particularly when it comes to Imperial coins. Especially if a particular emperor or empress is expensive to obtain, I&#039;d rather not have an example at all if I can only afford a poor or even a mediocre portrait. Which is why I made sure that my one Tiberius denarius, my one Galba, my one Pupienus, my one Balbinus, and so on all have good portraits. And why I don&#039;t have an Otho yet. When I have multiple examples of an emperor, I can focus more on finding interesting reverses. I don&#039;t need to buy any more denarii of Trajan, Hadrian, Septimius Severus, Severus Alexander and so on unless there&#039;s something about the reverses that particularly appeals to me. And that&#039;s even more true of antoninianii of emperors like Philip I or Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a special fondness for coins depicting children.</p><p><br /></p><p>And coins depicting animals on the reverse, mythical or otherwise.</p><p><br /></p><p>What can I say -- I&#039;m a shallow sentimentalist.</p><p><br /></p><p>My ancient Greek coins comprise only 21 of my 300 ancient coins, and four of those are actually what I&#039;d call Republican Provincial coins. Everything is subject to change, of course, but right now I think it&#039;s unlikely that ancient Greek coins will ever substantially increase as a percentage of my entire collection. Which is why the ones I do buy can probably mostly be classified as single examples of famous &quot;types&quot; -- e.g., one Athenian owl, one Athena/Pegasus stater from Corinth, one drachm from Istros with inverted male heads, one Kyzikos boar/lion diobol, one Gorgoneion/anchor from Apollonia Pontika, one Boeotian shield/amphora stater, one Aspendos wrestlers/slinger stater, one Alexander III drachm, one Rhodian Helios/Rose plinthophoric drachm, one &quot;man on dolphin&quot; nomos from Tarentum, one satyr/griffin from Pantikapaion, one Seleucid and one Ptolemaic tetradrachm, one cistophoric tetradrachm from Tralleis, and two Thessalian League Zeus/Athena staters -- only because they were basically a package deal. Obviously there are plenty of other famous ancient Greek types I&#039;d like to have, so for the most part buying more than one variety of any such type isn&#039;t something I ever plan to do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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