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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Deacon Ray, post: 2615598, member: 81896&quot;]<b>Thanks for the great post Aethelred!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Ninety percent of my coins are Judaean. I continue to be fascinated by them. I frequently&nbsp; purchase multiples of the same version of coin and have three collections. One collection is slabbed (<i>from my slab-happy period</i>), the second collection is in boxed sets, and the third collection is unslabbed for handling. My give-away coins are Jannaeas prutot and lepta. In the past year (<i>since becoming a member of the Coin Talk forum</i>) I’ve expanded my collections to include Biblical Kingdom coins—Roman, Nabataean, Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Parthian, and Indo-Scythian.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]573122[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I really began collecting ancient coins back in 2005. Initially I was searching for authentic Biblical relics and not necessarily coins. I was fascinated by the stories and legends that I had read about the True Cross and the possibility that fragments of it are still in existence. Coincidentally 2005 is around the time that the movie “<b>Kingdom of Heaven</b>” was released. The True Cross appears in the story and is captured by the forces of Saladin at the Battle of Hattin. This movie fueled my hunt for Holy Relics. It was around this time that I found an ad in an archeology magazine advertising a boxed collection of coins from the Holy Land. I placed an order for the collection (<i>including a certificate of authenticity</i>) from the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom. Since then I’ve been hooked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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