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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3014317, member: 19463&quot;]I believe we agree on what I consider the proper order of acquisitions.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hate to see new collectors starting out feeling pressured to buy an Otho/Didius Julianus/Alexander of Carthage class coin when they have no Vespasian, Septimius Severus or Diocletian.&nbsp; I suppose we could define a new collection set called the Twelve least consequential Caesars consisting of me who could disappear from history with no one noticing.&nbsp; I have no particular drive to get a coin from each emperor but, after collecting for most of my life, I might be allowed the urge to get some of these footnote guys.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This sounds like a plan worthy of emulation.&nbsp; The only plan I like better is to feel free to get your second or two hundredth coins of these &quot;effective and infamous ones.&quot;&nbsp; My plan is to go to a show or open an auction listing and see what is there that strikes me as something I wish I owned.&nbsp; This is not random gathering but the realization that you need to buy things when they are available to avoid wishing you had when they are not.&nbsp; The coin I want the most is the one I never knew existed or never thought I would be able to own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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