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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 3556810, member: 26302"]My question: Do YOU collect this series by officiana variety? If not, then you are like 99.9% of ancient collectors, (who are unlike 99.9% of the general population already). It gets backs to Warren Esty's ([USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] ) excellent article on ancient coin rarity. You have to "get over" rarity in ancient coins. Collect what you like and enjoy. If, in your collecting area you "need" a certain variety then by all means pay a premium if you feel you "need" it, but never just go around paying "rarity premiums" just for the sake of it. If you do, you are going to end up with a bunch of overpriced ancients that almost no one else will be willing to pay a premium for the "rare variety". For late Romans, I am aware of Bruck's book on different varieties and like to pick up varieties of "wolf and twins" coins when I see them, but only at common prices. If I were a serious collector of them, I would have no issue paying up for the rare pieces, but would know full well when it came time to sell I would most likely take a bath. Maybe my only exception to this was a group lot of anepigraphic late roman bronzes I bought from G&M a couple of months ago. They were nice VF-XF pieces. I do not really collect them, but like them.[/QUOTE]