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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2573350, member: 10461&quot;](Link to Photobucket album below)</p><p><br /></p><p>This was my first novice collection when I finally got serious about ancients.&nbsp; I decided to do an &quot;A to Z&quot; (Augustus to Zeno) portrait set of as many Roman emperors and empresses as I could get my hands on. My first criterion was a good portrait, and secondary consideration was a readable name on the flan if possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started this collection in the summer of 2007.&nbsp; It lasted only a year, because in the summer of 2008 I was laid off in the recession and forced to break the set up and sell everything off, just at the height of my enthusiasm for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I got pretty far with it, and managed to capture a hundred or more different emperors and empresses, in a year&#039;s time!&nbsp; I was pretty hot to trot on this stuff.&nbsp; When the forced sale came along, I surisingly did OK on the sales, considering this was a novice collection and an emergency sale.&nbsp; No doubt part of that success was due to the sympathy my fellow Collectors Universe members had for my economic plight, but still, I did OK.&nbsp; Bought nearly everything off VCoins from trusted dealers, since I didn&#039;t trust myself to shop eBay or other venues.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s88.photobucket.com/user/lordmarcovan/library/Old%202007-2008%20Roman%20collection?sort=9&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s88.photobucket.com/user/lordmarcovan/library/Old%202007-2008%20Roman%20collection?sort=9&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">Here is a Photobucket album</a> of most (though by no means all) of the set.&nbsp; Some pieces are noticeably missing- I note the absence of my Pupienus and Crispina sestertii, for instance.&nbsp; But this album is all I have left to show of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t a waste, though.&nbsp; Bittersweet though it was, these coins were a valuable tuition for me and I have zero regrets about having built the set.&nbsp; I might give something like this another go again someday.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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