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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mr.MonkeySwag96, post: 8167947, member: 100951&quot;]I started out collecting primarily US coins while occasionally dabbling with world coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn’t until two years ago that I shifted my focus to ancient coins. From the start, I decided to focus on Republican denarii. Although early Imperial coins tend to have superior style to Republican coins, I find Republican coins more interesting due to their more diverse subject matter on the designs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early Imperial coins are of secondary importance in my collecting. When collecting Imperial coinage, I solely focus on silver denarii and antoninianii of the 1st-3rd centuries. I’m less interested in the Late Roman coins of the 4th-5th centuries. I completed a set of denarii of the Five Good emperors. I’m currently working on a 12 Caesars set. I’d have to forgoe denarii of Caligula and Claudius due to their high price tags, substituting with bronze instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>I merely dabble with Greek coins. Most high quality Greek silver is too rich for my wallet. When I do collect Greek silver, I prefer larger denominations such as hemidrachm, tetrobol, drachm, didrachm, stater, tetradrachm etc. I don’t collect smaller coins such as obols as they’re easy to lose. Basically I’m open to collecting anything 15 mm or larger.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m actually more interested in Byzantine history than Roman history. However, my current collection consists of only a single Byzantine bronze, a tiny pentanummium of emperor Justinian. I hope to expand my Byzantine collection. When collecting Byzantine coins, I’d like to start with emperor Anastasius and end with emperor Basil II, basically the 5th-10th centuries. The coins of the later emperors of the Komnenos and Palaiologos dynasties don’t strike me as “ancient” and I class them as medieval coins instead. Which is why I don’t collect the coins of the Late Byzantine emperors, meaning no trachys for me. I’d like to own a gold solidus of Justinian and a silver hexagram of Heraclius someday.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m open to dabbling with some non-classical Eastern cultures, more specifically the Parthian Empire. I’d only collect the early Parthian coins due to their Hellenistic art style. The later Parthian coins are too crude for my taste. Although I find Sassanid coins pretty, I’m not going to collect them because I don’t like their thin fabric.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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