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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2461515, member: 19463&quot;]We are touching here on what I consider a natural part of collecting.&nbsp; I once was a more specialized collector than I am now.&nbsp; I have always had some special interest but, over the years, I have had enough different special interests that my collection started to look more like a generalist gathering.&nbsp; I have visited Probus, Magnentius, Republicans and a dozen other specialties but none to the degree I did with the Eastern Septimius.&nbsp; However, in the last few years, I have added ten Republicans for every Septimius simply because that is what I found available.&nbsp; There are many wonderful coins out there that I don&#039;t have but finding ones that I find interesting and different withing a narrow specialty becomes harder as the collection grew.&nbsp; Maybe my specialty has always been what is currently available that spoke to me.&nbsp; I have never understood those who build a specialist collection only to sell it off and build another different one.&nbsp; I keep them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a time I had a problem at shows knowing what to say when asked what I collect.&nbsp; Truth was &#039;coins I like at prices I can afford&#039;.&nbsp; Telling that to a dealer is pointless.&nbsp; I could not say I collected Eastern mint Septimius because, when that was my interest, many dealers did not know how to recognize them.&nbsp; My current fad of choice is the class coins with some technical oddity certainly including errors but not excluding &#039;different&#039; hair styles or things that are just hard to describe.&nbsp; I envy those of you who know what you want to buy next.&nbsp; I have absolutely no idea what the next coin that comes my way will be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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