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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GregH, post: 3326348, member: 75936&quot;]Very interesting questions.</p><p><br /></p><p>What metrics do I choose to add coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m interested in portraits of all rulers great and small. Primarily this has been Roman rulers, but I’ve added Byzantine, Greek and British to my scope.</p><p>Recently I’ve added “wow” factor as a parameter. I used to be happy with filling holes with a miserable Libius Severus AE4 just because it’s rare. But now I want coins with eye appeal, coins that look like treasure. So now I upgrade my miserable coins to better ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the above in mind, my collection will only ever be a few hundred pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>My wantlist is along these lines - I want the best coin I can afford of each ruler. I want a magnificent Elizabeth I crown or a Julius Caesar aureus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Half my purchases are from auctions, a quarter from Vcoins, a quarter from MA Shops and the rest from eBay and private sales. eBay isn’t what it was unfortunately.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t care for pedigrees. It’s great to have a coin with a great provenance, but that’s not a consideration at all. I know if I like a coin by looking at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don’t hate - but I have zero books or catalogues. I don’t have any need for this in the internet age, but I look forward to being corrected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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