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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4609862, member: 72790"]I arrange my entire ancient collection in chronological order. Of course at first they are all Greek coins starting with an Aigina Turtle, circa 500 BC and then moving on from there. At about 200 BC the first Roman coins start showing up, but the two, Greek and Roman continue to be mixed, again keeping everything chronological, (including the Parthian and later Sassanian coins in the mix). Gradually the Greek coins become Greek Imperial or Roman Provincials. By about 150 AD it is almost an equal mix of the two, Roman Imperial and Roman provincials, and continues as such until, the great coinage reforms of Diocletian and they stay that way until the coinage reforms of Anastasias and morphing into Byzantine where my Ancients collection fades off into my Medieval, circa 800-900 AD or so. I prefer this, I suppose, from my teaching of history, where keeping things in chronological order gave me a temporal perspective that made it easy for me to see the individual as part of a broader pattern.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4609862, member: 72790"]I arrange my entire ancient collection in chronological order. Of course at first they are all Greek coins starting with an Aigina Turtle, circa 500 BC and then moving on from there. At about 200 BC the first Roman coins start showing up, but the two, Greek and Roman continue to be mixed, again keeping everything chronological, (including the Parthian and later Sassanian coins in the mix). Gradually the Greek coins become Greek Imperial or Roman Provincials. By about 150 AD it is almost an equal mix of the two, Roman Imperial and Roman provincials, and continues as such until, the great coinage reforms of Diocletian and they stay that way until the coinage reforms of Anastasias and morphing into Byzantine where my Ancients collection fades off into my Medieval, circa 800-900 AD or so. I prefer this, I suppose, from my teaching of history, where keeping things in chronological order gave me a temporal perspective that made it easy for me to see the individual as part of a broader pattern.[/QUOTE]
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