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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3919478, member: 76194"]Thank you. Back in early 2018 I was re-examining my collection and came to a sad conclusion. I had so many Roman coins from the Crisis of the Third Century that they made up 70‰ of my collection. And while I like them, it demonstrated a clear lack of diversity and representation of other time periods. Since then I've branched out and in the last two years bought 12 Greek/Celtic coins, 11 Roman Republic denarii, and 3 LRBs. I even got 5 Roman Imperials from the 1st Century (another area I had been neglecting). </p><p><br /></p><p>From an aesthetics point, this has done wonders to my collection. And from a historical/human interest perspective, I think my collection has also greatly benefited. And let's face it, as beautiful and interesting as third century Roman Imperial coins are, some of the most iconic, interesting, and endearing coin types in our hobby are found during the Greek and Roman Republic periods, and even the first century of the empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I reach my limit of 200 ancients and are stuck with selling off some to upgrade and get nicer coins, I'm thinking of re-opening a collection of medieval and Asian coins (on a much smaller scale to my ancients collection). Maybe a 50 piece medieval collection, and a 50 piece Asian collection. But that's for years in the future. First I need to max out my ancients collection and spend a few years trading and upgrading to get it to where I can truly say I've maxed out and done the best 200 piece ancient collection my budget can afford.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3919478, member: 76194"]Thank you. Back in early 2018 I was re-examining my collection and came to a sad conclusion. I had so many Roman coins from the Crisis of the Third Century that they made up 70‰ of my collection. And while I like them, it demonstrated a clear lack of diversity and representation of other time periods. Since then I've branched out and in the last two years bought 12 Greek/Celtic coins, 11 Roman Republic denarii, and 3 LRBs. I even got 5 Roman Imperials from the 1st Century (another area I had been neglecting). From an aesthetics point, this has done wonders to my collection. And from a historical/human interest perspective, I think my collection has also greatly benefited. And let's face it, as beautiful and interesting as third century Roman Imperial coins are, some of the most iconic, interesting, and endearing coin types in our hobby are found during the Greek and Roman Republic periods, and even the first century of the empire. Once I reach my limit of 200 ancients and are stuck with selling off some to upgrade and get nicer coins, I'm thinking of re-opening a collection of medieval and Asian coins (on a much smaller scale to my ancients collection). Maybe a 50 piece medieval collection, and a 50 piece Asian collection. But that's for years in the future. First I need to max out my ancients collection and spend a few years trading and upgrading to get it to where I can truly say I've maxed out and done the best 200 piece ancient collection my budget can afford.[/QUOTE]
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