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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NicholasMaximus, post: 4512262, member: 111966&quot;]My love of Roman and Greek History (especially Roman) is what got me into collecting coins. So while you make good points about coins from other civilizations, I don’t see my collecting moving away from these two areas until I have built up a nice collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am actually interested in artifacts of all kinds, but I find coins to be the most interesting and readily available artifacts to collect. I actually saw a very cool thread on Roman Sling bullets last night, and I would love to branch out to items like that as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do have somewhat of a “project” in mind. I have a list of favorite emperors that I want to have a coin from, as a starting point. But I’m not rushing to get just any coins that are connected to them. </p><p><br /></p><p>Once I get a nice quality coin for each of my targeted emperors, I would like to check off as many other emperors as possible. And of course, some emperors would be more sought after than others. </p><p><br /></p><p>Outside of Imperial Rome, the rise of the Athenian empire is another chapter of history I am very interested in. Figures like Cimon and Aristides, facing off against Themistocles and Pericles. There is so much to collect within my main interests, that I don’t see myself shifting to other civilizations anytime soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, Egyptian and Celtic coins would probably be the first types I look at, outside of Rome/ Greece. Egypt is just another fascinating/ major empire that I have always had some interest in. Celtic would be more in connection to my half-Scottish background (the other half of my family is Italian, so I already have that covered with Rome).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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