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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1657176, member: 26302&quot;]Great job. </p><p><br /></p><p>Narrow focus is still appropriate as well. Since I have been around longer I have several subsets going at any one time, but I admit I spend more time looking at Persian and Central Asian, (especially hunnic), coins than others. So, its really a combination of remembering your areas of interest, but also buying what you can, when you can, if something in your area of interest is not for sale at what you consider a &quot;reasonable&quot; price. I could chase down a Sassanid I really want today and pay high retail for it, but don&#039;t. I will buy it WHEN I can find it at a reasonable price. In the meantime, I have bought groups of parthian bronzes, arab byzantine, ancient Judea, and elamite while waiting for my Sassanids I want to become available. </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem, (at least for me), is interests change. Keeping an open mind in collecting allows you to buy more at better prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone wanting a really good background book for coin collecting should read Frank Robinson&#039;s &quot;Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatic&quot;. It might be tough to find, but a great read. I already was the way I am, but reading his stories, how keeping an open mind allowed him to get some great deals and open up whole new areas of interest, really resonated with me. One of my favorites books about numismatics. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I had to paraphrase the book for others, it would be &quot;all coins are good&quot;, (yes Bing, even central asian coins, they won&#039;t bite). There is no such thing as an uninteresting coin, they are only uninteresting because you do not know the whole story yet. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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