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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2621780, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m with Steve.&nbsp; There is a big difference between buying any and everything and buying coins that speak to you.&nbsp; Along the way I have traveled some specialties more than others and have 500 denarii of Septimius and Julia to show for it.&nbsp; I do not regret having them but I might have been a little more selective in the 1990&#039;s when I was really hotter for them than I am now.&nbsp;&nbsp; My web page started in February 1997 (that will be 20 years for those not good with numbers) drove me to buy coins I &#039;needed&#039; because I wanted to do a page on something that was not Septimius Severus.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/25group.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Sometime in 2015, I bought a coin that doubled the size of my collection on the date I started the pages.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have exact statistics but I do know that the recent half of my collection is much, much better balanced over time and place that the Roman/Severan heavy first half.&nbsp; I am proud to be a general collector of ancient coins and a very minor dabbler in medievals.&nbsp; I like my Severans, my Republicans, my Hadrians, my Provincials, my Greeks.....my coins that spoke to me and were not required because they were lacking from a set.&nbsp; IMHO, sets are for those filling up their Whitman blue boards.&nbsp; I buy coins that I like at prices I can afford.&nbsp; There is no possible album with holes to fit what I might buy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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