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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5253879, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks! I really don&#039;t want to derail this thread, but the answer to your question is that I have limited funds to spend on coins or anything else non-essential (although I would argue that during the pandemic, coins have been pretty essential to my mental health!). So every dollar I spend on branching out beyond my interests, which aren&#039;t really that narrow in the first place -- Roman Republican, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Roman Imperial and Provincial, as well as Greek coins every now and then -- is a dollar I don&#039;t have to spend on my primary interests.&nbsp; For which there&#039;s an inexhaustible supply of coins available!</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides, my own personal opinion is that -- to me, and me alone -- most Byzantine (and medieval) coins, although they can have a lot of charm and historical interest, are somewhat cruder than, and aren&#039;t as beautiful as, the ancient coins I do like to collect. Admittedly, that can be true of a lot of Roman Provincial (especially Roman Alexandrian) coins, and late Roman Imperial coins, as well. But Byzantine and European medieval coins are also, again only for me, a little too universally demonstrative about the symbols of a religion to which I don&#039;t belong, and which, at the time those coins were issued, had an often adversarial outlook towards members of mine, who happened in some cases to be my own ancestors.&nbsp; For the same reasons I admire medieval European art (and, after all, I live right near the Cloisters, which I&#039;ve visited regularly since childhood) but wouldn&#039;t necessarily want to own it, I can admire the Byzantine and European medieval coins that people show here, without wanting to buy coins like them. Or could have looked at, and been tempted by, rows of inexpensive Byzantine gold coins 35 years ago -- when $200 for a coin felt like a lot more than it does now, but was still manageable on occasion -- without ending up buying any.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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