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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2747525, member: 10461"]Photobucket is so awful nowadays that it's time to bring these pictures over here, I think, for archiving purposes. This was my very first (novice) collection of Romans, started in 2007 and forced into selloff in 2008 when I got laid off in the recession.  So it was a fairly short-lived endeavor, lasting only a little over a year. My goal was to get as many different portraits/persons as possible, in an "A to Z" (Augustus to Zeno) collection.  My newfound enthusiasm for ancients burned hot indeed, and I was grabbing them up right and left.  By the end, I believe I had over 100 different emperors and empresses.  My primary goal was a decent portrait, and secondary criterion was as clear a name as possible in the obverse legends.  I did not pay as much attention to exotic or interesting reverse designs yet at that time. I bought a lot from Steve McBride at Incitatus Coins, Marc Breitsptecher at Ancient Imports, a few from FORVM, and got some from [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER], my oldest numismatic friend.  Mostly they came from VCoins dealers.  I did not yet trust myself on eBay much (but made an exception for a plate-coin pedigreed Pupienus sestertius which I've sadly lost the pictures of).  The last coin was a Zeno solidus from the Eliasberg Collection, which also doubled as the centerpiece of my trademark <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">"Holey Gold Hat"</a>, since it was a holed piece. I'll just make this thread an image dump, for the heck of it. Unfortunately, I lost some of the pictures in a simultaneous double-whammy of hard drive crashes on two separate computers.  But here are the rest, mostly salvaged seller pics.[/QUOTE]

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