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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 25913306, member: 10461"]When I <strike>kidnapped</strike> - <strike>drafted</strike> - um - recruited Randy, I did suggest two directions he could go in.  The first was “the whole enchilada” - that uncompletable, “get as many different ones as you can” approach.  Which I agree is fun. The most fun, in my opinion.  I called mine "A to Z" - Augustus to Zeno. (BTW, I love those posters- had one when I started out.  Are those your work, Rasiel?  From the Dirty Old Coins endeavor?  I visited DOC fairly often when I was a novice.) That "big option" - the "one of everything you can find and afford" is a learning adventure.  Attempting it in 2007-08 taught me most of what I know about Roman history. But it can be a huge leap for someone who's coming from the world of traditional US coin collecting, where the date and mint combinations fall into tidy, finite "sets". For this reason, I also suggested a second option to Randy where he could try the Twelve Caesars and have a short, completable (if challenging) set to work on.  I know he's got the financial wherewithal and I think he will have the passion for it.  The learning curve will give him headaches but I have confidence in him there, too. And that's the option he chose.  The 12C.  Think of it as an introductory or transitional phase. There's always time for him to move on and try to bite into "the whole enchilada" later, after he's cut his teeth on the 12C. (I suppose I could have alternately suggested an even shorter set to start with: The Five Good Emperors.  But there would not have been so much challenge in that.)[/QUOTE]

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