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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7854121, member: 110226&quot;]Thank you for sharing your journey, for collecting is indeed a journey, one that is our lifetime companion as we learn and explore the history and the wonders of our planet.&nbsp; The knowledge that we acquire through this forum, through books and other media opens doors and enriches the mind.&nbsp; It becomes a fount of understanding the way the world and human history has been, and how the past informs the present and is indeed an indicator of the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have some wonderful coins, just exquisite.&nbsp; With ancient coins art is often wedded to the symbolic purposes of a coin.&nbsp; The beauty of Arethusa and the quadriga of Syracuse&#039;s tetradrachms serve to proudly announce to the world at that time her power and achievement.&nbsp; The same can be said of Athens, through not of the same artistic level as the Syracusan coinage, still pronounces her power and dominance of the 5th century ancient world in the Mediterranean and East.&nbsp; There are many other examples, both Roman, Greek, Byzantine and Islamic, to name a few.</p><p><br /></p><p>I admire your systematic approach to collecting.&nbsp; I am much less organized.&nbsp; I guess that comes down to personality.&nbsp; I get easily pulled in different directions, as you can see in my original post.&nbsp; If I read something of interest, either here on CT or a novel I am reading, I get an urge to acquire an example of the coin being described or the king, general, emperor or empress in the novel. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since you are interested in the tumultuous period following the death of Alexander III, I recommend a novel by Mary Renault, the third novel in her trilogy on Alexander The Great, <i>Funeral Games</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many people collect coins as investments, objects that, hopefully, will provide a healthy return upon sale.&nbsp; The true collector, I think, in whatever field or period of numismatics, develops a profound link between coins, the ultimate time travelers created by humans, and the stories they have to tell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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