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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8167303, member: 110350&quot;]I agree that RR is, in many ways, a different specialty from Roman Imperial. I consider Roman Provincial to be, perhaps, more closely related to Roman Imperial, despite the vastly different styles. (But then again, based on style alone, one could argue that Late Roman Imperial is a different field from the Imperial coinage of the first and second centuries AD.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t give any exact numbers for my collection, because I still haven&#039;t gotten access to my old hard drive, with the latest version of my personal coin catalog listing all of my ca. 320 ancient coins. (I&#039;m awaiting what I hope is the right kind of usb cable, since the hard drive enclosure box didn&#039;t have it!)</p><p><br /></p><p>But I think I can say that I actively collect all three main types of Roman coinage: Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, and Roman Provincial (particularly Roman Alexandrian). Within Roman Imperial, I no longer actively seek out bronze coins issued from Diocletian onwards -- I think I have enough, and they all begin to look sort of alike to me! -- but still have interest in collecting silver (the siliquae and the argentei), and, when I can afford them, gold in the form of solidi.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think people know that RR&#039;s hold a special fascination for me from, say, the 130s BCE and later (after the end of the era of coins that were anonymous and/or showed nothing but the Dioscuri galloping in tandem). It seems possible to research and write a lengthy essay about almost every single coin and its historical and symbolic aspects, something that obviously isn&#039;t possible for most Imperial coins. If I have many fewer RRs than Roman Imperials -- about 67 compared to about 200, as a guess -- it&#039;s because they&#039;re generally scarcer in nice condition, and (especially in the last couple of years) more expensive than the average Imperial in equivalent condition.&nbsp; In addition, I would guess that I have about 30-40 Roman Provincials, and have sought them out -- particularly the Roman Alexandrian coinage -- more actively in the last year or so than previously.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also own about 20 Ancient Greek coins, some of which, I think, should be classified more accurately as &quot;Republican Provincial.&quot; I don&#039;t seek Greek coins out actively pursuant to any kind of plan; it&#039;s&nbsp; more a case of finding some coins so attractive that I just have to have them in the rare case that I can afford them -- like the Aspendos stater I bought from Harlan J. Berk that was probably my #1 coin from all of 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never collected Byzantine or Western medieval coins -- as opposed to my two solidi of Arcadius and Honorius, which in terms of iconography and symbolism still qualify as predominantly &quot;Roman&quot; to me. In other words, not so suffused with religious symbolism of a type that I admire artistically, but don&#039;t have any great interest in collecting. Back when I was a collector of British coins and historical medals, my collection went only as far back as the Tudors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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