ROLL CALL: What is Your Primary Collecting Interest?

I generally collect ancient coins with some sort of architecture on the reverse, the field is big with altars,
columns, galley's, city/town gates and arches. My preference are big bronzes but quite often the silver coinage has architecture unique to that metal. As a sub interest I like to collect ancient as old as possible of places in the world I visit or holiday as it personalizes the coin and gives the general satisfaction of being where the coin was minted all those years ago.

 

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Completely off topic here, but one of my favorite short compositions in all of classical music: Danse macabre (Camille Saint-Saëns). If you've never heard this piece, it's worth a listen. It starts out very softly so turn up the volume

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Also, in the interest of a constructive suggestion for not posting in the wrong forum, I note that in my browser the current forum is displayed near the top of the page when you click on a link in the right-hand column:



So you can verify you're in the right forum before responding to a post.

 

I have suggested this previously and management has not even had the decency to reply putting down the idea. It rather reminds me of the fight we had to get a separate section for Ancients so we would not be in there with modern foreign. Several of us came to Coin Talk looking for a home for people who collected ancients and would be more friendly that other sites which take the hobby too seriously and do not welcome beginners' questions. In particular, we wanted to be able to help beginners avoid those crooks who make a living selling junk and fakes while calling and pricing them coins worthy of being in a museum.

The problem is that 'Recent Topics' column at the right. I read it looking for posts in Coin Chat regarding photography but I try not to post to things of no appeal to collectors out of the area in which it was posted. Having all posts flagged by the system with the section from which it came would help. As it is, people who do not know what an ancient coin is feel the need to explain the rules for whatever it is they collect often not realizing where they are posting.

I collect generally with two major exceptions. I do not collect coins that NEVER circulated at face value. If a half dollar never went to banks at 50 cents, I do not consider it coin but a medal. I have removed a few US commemoratives from circulation but I do not have a baseball glove. I collect all ancients. If it can be shown that Trajan's restoration coins were never circulated at a value of one denarius I am willing to forgive them and keep a coin if I get it. That is rather unlikely but it is the way it is.

I once specialized in coins of Septimius Severus and about 1/5 of my current holdings are Severan. I later realized that I enjoyed more variations in my collection so now I collect "Coins I like, at prices I can afford."

Forgive our snarkiness. I am sure she is tired of having to go through this again and again whenever another person wanders in without knowing or, worse, decides it is time to see if they can rile up the ancient crowd again.

 

Rile up the ancient crowd...bite your tongue...most mellow place on the site. Try fielding "My Unique Error Coin Is Worth Millions" for the millionith time.

 

Why? Has it become your albatross?

 

But not BEFORE

 

I have to lead off on the fact I used to collect moderns but well I needed a challenge.
I got bored.

Main interests:
Macedonian, Greek, Roman including Republican, Emperor/Empresses, IR, RP.
Carthage
Also those related to Biblical.
Sub: Ionian, Lydian, Kolophon, Egyptian.
I'm drawn to history 500BC thru 350AD.

Every now & then I will add a modern but only whats missing from collection or I guess old collection. I can't bare to part with them.

 

Ditto.

 

True, but maybe I'm missing your point here. Here's my thinking:

1. Click link to thread in right-hand column.
2. New page displays on your browser with name of forum (Ancients) at top of page.
3. Read name of forum and decide whether or not your post will be appropriate for that forum.

What am I missing?

 

ORDER! ORDER! PLEASE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

The thread is What is Your Primary Collecting Interest?
MINE: Silver staters/tetradrachms of Magna Graecia.
OK, now, go ahead and argue...

 

Ides, I know exactly how and where to post messages, since at least 5 other CT members
named their favorite collecting areas other then ancients,I didn't hesitate to list a couple of non ancient stuff also. Only difference is I added some pics.
Thanks anyway for the link of the Dance Macabre.

 

Thanks, Roman Collector. I'll definitely have to check this out!

Erin

 

if it's a hammered coin, and i like it, and i can afford it...it's in my collecting area for sure. i enjoy pretty much anything ancient or medieval, but have more roman coins than anything else. i like some modern coins as well, BIG coins, pre-1900 coins, old french jetons, conder tokens, and notgeld also.

 

Uh...there is a difference between POSTING to a forum and RESPONDING to a post

 

@cpm9ball ball said:

@@Aethelred

If you had posted this subject in, say, "Coin Chat" and used a poll covering all sorts of collecting interests, you might have created a more interesting outcome for your question, but since you chose to post this in "Ancient Coins", I have no interest at all.

Chris

cpm9ball, Today at 12:52 PM Report

And it seems to have generated animosity...why, just a bit of motherly advice, and believe me, many people have called Chris a mother... Now I stop.

 

This guy's attitude is so self-absorbed, he expects ancient collectors to care about his moderns and then gets upset if we tell him he's in the wrong place. It's sort of like going to see Zoolander 2 at the local multiplex, walking into Rogue One, raising a fuss when people tell him he's in the wrong theater, and then snootily replying, "Well, I have no interest in Rogue One."

 

No! What I object to is someone whose ancient knowledge leaves no room for understanding modern English. You don't even know what I like to collect, so why don't you keep your "keyboard quiet" instead of removing all doubt about your lack of comprehension.

Chris

 

Kennedy half dollars?

 

Trying to accurately nail down my areas of interest is like trying to define the limits of volcanic flow, it’s a moving target and can change unexpectedly. However, in general, my numismatic interests are roughly broken down into the following categories:

Roman Imperial bronzes with a special interest in Antonine, Tetrarchy and Constantinian era coinage. This isn’t to say I don’t look at other types of Imperial coinage, it’s just that I seem to proportionally have more pieces in those three areas.

Carthaginian and Iberian bronzes. Iberian obverses are fascinating, running the gamut from an infinite variety of similarly stylized curly haired busts to strangely unique busts (think Castulo). You start to get a great sense of Greek versus Celtic artistic influences.

I probably shouldn’t mention this in the Ancients Forum but now and then noteworthy Spanish colonial silver or world crowns catch my attention and are brought into the fold.

Sometimes I feel like the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz not being sure which direction to take…