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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2227262, member: 44357&quot;]Those are certainly very historic and interesting coins with which to start a collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>With ancients, &quot;sets&quot; are far less prevalent and instead, you can collect whatever piques your curiosity. This makes it more free-form and flexible, attributes which I find very appealing (and which drove me to leave US collecting entirely).</p><p><br /></p><p>As you read more about history and the context of coins, you&#039;ll start to appreciate them even more deeply. Ancient coins are also available at all price ranges, and there are often pieces which are historically identical but available at much lower prices, so don&#039;t let &quot;sticker shock&quot; push you away.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a bit behind on updating my website with descriptions of more recent purchases but I&#039;ve tried to write accessible historical descriptions with numismatic context for the first millennium of coinage, which may help show the types and history of coins: <a href="http://www.colosseocollection.com/p444364358" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.colosseocollection.com/p444364358" rel="nofollow">http://www.colosseocollection.com/p444364358</a> (the &quot;View chronologically&quot; link at the top can also be used if you wish to get a feel as to how coinage began and has progressed).</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your username, I&#039;m also a &quot;physics fan&quot; (to say the least) and there&#039;s something particularly appealing about seeing the same Ancient Greek symbols used in modern physics/mathematics as were inscribed on coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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