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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2849288, member: 19463&quot;]One of the great things about the hobby is you can collect according to any plan you like or no plan at all.&nbsp; I have absolutely no use for concepts like the 5 &#039;good&#039; emperors which some people used to collect as the &#039;Adoptive Emperors&#039; but I really think it better if you expand it a bit and include Lucius Verus and Commodus even if they don&#039;t pass your standards for quality or DNA.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I really do encourage taking a look at the reverse of any coin you get.&nbsp; Some are interesting.&nbsp; Someday you might decide it is OK to have more than one coin of one ruler or maybe 500 if you get a serious case of the ancient plague.&nbsp; Also avoid yelling too loudly what you don&#039;t collect.&nbsp; I did not collect Late Roman for the first thirty years I collected ancients but I got over that.&nbsp; I limited myself to Greek and Roman for longer than that.&nbsp; I got over that, too.&nbsp; Just silver?&nbsp; No silver?&nbsp; Only Imperials?&nbsp; Only Republicans?&nbsp;&nbsp; Provincials?&nbsp; Colonials?&nbsp; (Who knows the difference?)&nbsp; You might even assemble a &#039;Type&#039; set with just one coin from each category of ancient that someone out there collects as a specialty.&nbsp; That would be at least 500 coins.&nbsp; Don&#039;t buy what you don&#039;t like.&nbsp; Someone else will.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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