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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8169848, member: 84905&quot;]I collect what I like, but as it turns out I like too much so I have some focus areas, some side interests and some areas that I excluded altogether.</p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Antiquity</b></u></p><ul> <li><b>Greek:</b> I excluded Greek coins altogther and I&#039;m proud to have kept a promise that I made to myself to never go into collecting Greek coins. Reasons: I&#039;m not so interested in Greek history.</li> <li><b>Celtic:</b> Marginal side interest. Only a few selected pieces.</li> <li><b>Roman: </b>Focusing on the the 3rd to 5th centuries, which is the period that I find historically most interesting. I don&#039;t collect the Roman Republic and I&#039;m not too keen on the 1st and 2nd centuries. I don&#039;t collect Roman provincials (with exceptions). I focus on coins in silver, billon and bronze, but I&#039;m very particular when it comes to condition. <u>In my collecting philosophy condition trumps rarity</u>.</li> </ul><p> <ul> <li><b>Germanic kingdoms: </b>Vandals, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Burgundians, Suevian, some Frankish (Merovingian) and some early Anglo-Saxon. I find the historical period when Rome fell and successor kingdoms emerged particulaly interesting. Problem: My collections are practically complete, i.e. there is very little left that I can afford.</li> </ul><p><b><u>Middle Ages</u></b></p><ul> <li>Some German coins of the high middle ages (side interest).</li> <li>Russian coins from 1000 to 1500.</li> <li>Some Georgian coins of the 12th/13th century (side interest)</li> <li>Coins of the Teutonic Order of Knights (from East Prussia)</li> </ul><p><b><u>Post Medieval</u></b></p><ul> <li>Coins of East Prussia (only selected pieces)</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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