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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2051134, member: 42773"]Well if you thought that was random, you should see my Greeks. I only bought a dozen over the year, so I can post them all. (This excludes Nabataeans, which get called 'Greek' but are really in a category unto themselves. The line gets quite blurry the further south you go, but that's a separate discussion.) [ATTACH=full]376650[/ATTACH] These range from Macedonia to Qataban. Two were on my want list (3 and 11) simply because I liked the designs, and they came up for sale this year at reasonable prices. The Seleucids (10 and 12) were collected for their relationship to early Nabataean coins. As many of you know, I have a keen interest in the coinage of the Southern Levant and Arabia. This year I acquired Hoover's Handbook Volume 10 (published by CNG), and managed to collect three coins from this reference: 6 (Ake-Ptolemias), 7 (Arados), and 8 (Qataban). Probably most of the Greek-influenced coinage I buy in 2015 will come from this area. A coin from every Southern Levantine and Arabian mint would make quite a collection, but unfortunately some are exceedingly rare and expensive.[/QUOTE]