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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1037495, member: 26302"]So what is it? 794 entries, 32 pages, is it just a listing of people on the coins? I cannot imagine they can list types in that short of time. Portrait collecting is a big part of Roman coin collecting. I find it a little superficial, though, since the reverses are very interesting and important. If I get another Trajan, I am not looking for "just" a Trajan, but something like a Trajan's column reverse, or a Dacian War triumph, or something similar. I am just saying if you want to use this list, great, but also read up on the reverses and pick some out that are historical and interesting. A case in point, I was looking for some Elegabalus coins recently, and found a few from Antioch. Instead of the normal SC and wreath reverse, I bought a coin with Antioch standing, with Orontes in the river and showing the city. Besides being a bigger coin, this reverse is 100 times more interesting and historical to me than a common SC reverse would be. Collect how you want to man, I am glad to have a fellow ancient collector, I was just suggesting opening up to the other side of the coin as well. The downfall of portrait collecting is that soon you run up to some very scarce coins, (Otho, Gordian I and II, Johannes, etc), and it becomes very expensive to continue. I am too cheap to be forced to buy expensive coins just to check it off, but to each his own.[/QUOTE]