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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25913586, member: 10461&quot;]No, you&#039;ve got it.&nbsp; The 12 Caesars are indeed a subset of the other option, which is... well, <i>everything</i>.&nbsp; The 12 Caesars are Julius Caesar, followed by the first eleven emperors of the Roman empire (see the list of reference links I put in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-welcome-our-latest-roman-imperial-collector.415311/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/please-welcome-our-latest-roman-imperial-collector.415311/">the first post</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>And they can be a good starting point, for one to explore further...</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;everything&quot; option - one of every single Roman emperor (empress, usurper, etc.)- is not realistically completable by <i>anyone</i>, not even the likes of the British Museum.&nbsp; Some rare individuals are only known to history on the basis of a single coin find or two.&nbsp; No historical record about them survived the millennia to come down to us.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you pursue that &quot;everything&quot; option, it&#039;s pretty freestyle and open-ended.&nbsp; You simply go as far as you can with it- and where you want with it- and get as many representative coins as your budget and ability to find them allows.&nbsp; You can never complete it, so you just keep on going with it as long as it interests you (and it probably will, increasingly).</p><p><br /></p><p>This feeling is experienced by a lot of folks.&nbsp; It is what held <i>me</i> back from collecting ancients until after I had already been a collector of other coins for 31 years.&nbsp; It took me that long to &quot;graduate&quot; to ancients because I was intimidated by all the unknown history and terminology, and the obviously enormous intellectual capacity of the people who collect in that field.&nbsp; And to be candid, I&#039;m <i>still</i> intimidated by the scholarly types to this day.&nbsp; But that need not be an obstacle.</p><p><br /></p><p>Randy too has said he was always at least mildly interested in ancients, but too intimidated to take the plunge.&nbsp; Sometimes one just needs a mentor, maybe.&nbsp; He told me he felt like a kindergartner.&nbsp; I assured him that in our case, me mentoring him is like a kindergartner being tutored by a third-grader!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a member of the scholarly elite and never will be.&nbsp; I&#039;ve just learned to accept that and have fun, being a basic, general collector and a specialist in nothing.&nbsp; At least I can join in a few conversations on ancients without getting <i>utterly</i> baffled, though the braniac people will frequently lose me when they go off into the minutiae.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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