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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3272928, member: 95174&quot;]I started with Roman Imperial coins that I got at a local coin shop. I found my first copy of David Sears catalog in a used book store, I still have it, the catalog it was printed in the 1960&#039;s and the&nbsp; numbers were always off because I could not afford a new catalog. </p><p>I then specialized to Women on Roman coins then that collection was sold, because I figured I could never afford to finish it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I still wanted to collect but I could not decide on what my focus would be. Then one day in a group lot I found a coin that stumped me. When I finally attributed it&nbsp; I was hooked and&nbsp; I thought it would be an easy collection to complete. After all I was only looking for 50 coins.&nbsp; LOL It took almost 20 years to complete and I helped add new types to that original list.That collection was Byzantine AE tetartera. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the first tetarteron that starting my obsession</p><p><br /></p><p>MANUEL METROPOLITIAN TETARTERON S-1968 </p><p>[ATTACH=full]863504[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I still look for better examples, but I have now expanded my collecting to all 12th century Byzantine coinage, after all I had already found the hard ones.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Alexius I Comnenus, AU Hyperpyron SBCV-1913 , My first gold coin added to the collection this year.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]863505[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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