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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2264087, member: 19463&quot;]While I collect Roman Republican (have quite a few) I have zero admiration for the men represented on the coins any more than for the tyrants and fools that followed.&nbsp; That is something I have never understood.&nbsp; Collecting Caligula does not mean I admire him any more than spending a dime means I liked Franklin Roosevelt.&nbsp; I also have no use for breaking history into neat packages and only knowing about the ones that appeal.&nbsp; There is one really good reason IMHO for including Augustus and stopping your collection there.&nbsp; Volume I of Roman Silver Coins by Seaby stops with Augustus so collecting Tiberius means you have to buy another book.&nbsp; Of course I&#039;d prefer you buy volume I of Millennium Sear which goes through the Flavians which would open up the rest of the Twelve Caesars (another start/stop collection idea I don&#039;t like). </p><p><br /></p><p>Still my &#039;what I like&#039; collection has its limits.&nbsp; I show here with excessive frequency my John VIII Byzantine (not bad for &#039;really late Roman&#039;).&nbsp; I do not really like machine made coins but I can collect the last of the old school &#039;hit them with a hammer&#039; issues like the Russian wire money.&nbsp; We ll collect what we like and what we can afford.&nbsp; Buying coins because you think you should is rarely satisfying; buying coins with money you don&#039;t have can have a downside, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>John VIII - next to last Byzantine emperor and &#039;stopper&#039; for poor people like me. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]449848[/ATTACH]</p><p>Peter I, Russia, wire AR kopeck - Part of Peter&#039;s plan to bring Russia into the modern world was to make Russian coins like those of the other European nations.&nbsp; I do not have one of his big, beautiful rubles which came after I stop.&nbsp; Russia was criticized for being slow to leave the ancient ways.&nbsp; That is the reason I have any Russian coins. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]449849[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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