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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 2809133, member: 75641&quot;]I would not worry so much about nailing down a particular interest.&nbsp; If you need to float around and learn some then focus on a specific area, so be it.&nbsp; I lingered around in US coins forever until I had a decade long break from collecting.&nbsp; Then I realized that with prices being what they were I could never probably do a collection that I really liked for my budget.&nbsp; Then I worked more in foreign stuff.&nbsp; I still have some ongoing collections in foreign, but as material either dried up or became prohibitively expensive, I found myself looking at ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>As it turns out, I didn&#039;t know a thing about ancients.&nbsp; But I have many friendly people on here.&nbsp; Turns out I really needed to immerse myself in ancients and kind of buy all over the place to learn the field enough to decide on what I wanted to focus on after all.&nbsp; As it turns out, I still like to have a wide variety of stuff to chose from that all technically still fits into my &quot;declared&quot; collecting goals.&nbsp; I like late Roman bronzes for the mintmark varieties amongst otherwise boring mass produced designs.&nbsp; So if I am at a show and all the one ancient dealer has is a pile of cheap late Roman bronzes of Constantine the Great, I can still look for varieties that I do not have and come out a winner and with a sense of satisfaction at having filled some spaces.&nbsp; If I am lucky enough to be at a show where there is a large selection, I try to add some more rare emperors to my one per emperor set.&nbsp; If the only examples of rare stuff are too expensive then I try to fill out my denarius collections for Septimius Severus and Julia Domna.&nbsp; All of these things bring me immense amounts of joy.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Along the way, I have been lucky to meet some nice people who have guided me to the right places to learn more and be a better collector.&nbsp; I think that is the most important piece of advice that I have for you: ask for help and follow the advice you are given.&nbsp; Find the free versions online of expensive ancient reference books. Use Wildwinds and these forums.&nbsp; Keep careful records which helps you solidify that information about prices/rarity/references/good sellers in your head.</p><p><br /></p><p>And most of all, learn, enjoy and share what you find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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