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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8120216, member: 110350&quot;]In 2020, I bought about 140 ancient coins. In 2021, I&#039;ve bought about 70, so half that number. (I have a total of 309 ancient coins right now, so I had about 100 at the beginning of 2020 -- right before I joined Coin Talk.) However, although I&#039;ve never calculated exactly how much I&#039;ve spent on ancient coins in each of the last two years -- I honestly don&#039;t want to know the exact number! -- I suspect that the total amount spent has been about the same each year. In other words, half as many coins purchased, but twice as much spent on each coin, on average: my focus has been more on the quality of each purchase than on the original &quot;one coin per emperor&quot; goal -- especially once I started focusing more on Roman Republican coins about two years ago. I&#039;d rather have my 17 nice coins of Hadrian, both Imperial and Provincial (my most for any emperor), than spend even a small amount of money making sure I have a bronze coin of every single late 3rd or 4th century emperor. even the easy ones I&#039;m still missing like Licinius II or Magnentius or Jovian or the Valentinians.</p><p><br /></p><p>My resolution for 2022 is to reduce the number of coins purchased by about half again, so no more than 35 or 40 in total. Which still allows me to buy three coins per month! I&#039;d like to reduce the total amount I spend somewhat, but don&#039;t know how realistic that goal is given that my tastes seem to be getting more expensive, and I&#039;d like to buy a few more ancient gold coins in addition to the two solidi I bought in 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, my first coin purchase for 2022 -- already ordered, but I&#039;m counting it for next year even if it arrives before the end of the month! -- is my first aureus.&nbsp; With a really, really nice provenance to a famous collection, going back more than 80 years, confirmed by photographic evidence. You can read all about it when I post the photos and description after the New Year. (If I&#039;m going to spend in the low-to-mid-four figures for a single coin, like this one, it had better have a documented provenance: I certainly wouldn&#039;t want to buy an aureus and then learn that it was originally found and sold a few years ago with a big hole in it, and then expertly repaired by a jeweler in Ukraine!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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