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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3826795, member: 96898&quot;]That&#039;s a very good question and I&#039;d love to hear how others do it!</p><p><br /></p><p>Many large collections and catalogues follow Eckhel&#039;s system of sorting all non-Roman ancient coins geographically. Basically, you start at Gibraltar and go clockwise around the Mediterranean.</p><p><br /></p><p>My collection is much smaller, though, and I do it in a different, more amateurish way. All my (in the widest sense) Greek coins are in a large slide box organized into three parts:</p><p><br /></p><p>A first section contains civic coins sorted alphabetically by region and city.</p><p><br /></p><p>A second section holds coins of the Hellenistic kingdoms and their succesors in a mixed chrono-geographical order going west to east: Macedon – Ptolemaic – Seleucid - smaller eastern kingdoms (Cappadocia, Pontus, etc.) – Greco-Bactrian – Indo–Greek – Indo–Scythian – Kushan and successors.</p><p><br /></p><p>A third section holds eastern coins showing at least some Greek influence but coming from states that were not successors of Alexander&#039;s Empire: Achaemenid Empire – Mauryan Empire (needs to go somewhere...) – Parthian Empire – smaller eastern states (Armenia, Elymais, Nabataean Kingdom, etc.) – Sasanian Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Punic coins (mainly Carthage) as well as all things Celtic live in a different box.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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