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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3790132, member: 90666&quot;]Thanks Blake</p><p><br /></p><p>There will be a lot more to come, I am about half way through. What&#039;s left includes the popular Imperatorial era where I have some pretty nice Julius Caesar portraits and some great rarities too. There&#039;ll be another intermission now, for possibly a week. Coins are not physically with me (and when they are, only in small batches)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012409[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In this thread, my endeavour has been to present coins as a collection and not as unconnected items. Displaying coins as a collection beside other coins, and with natural backgrounds rather than whited out, really helps give a &quot;collection feel&quot;. I love all my coins but there are two aspects where my collection might have an edge over, or at least equal, other published collections</p><p>- quality of the provenances</p><p>- quality of the bronzes</p><p>The funny thing about those two aspects is they come cheap or free. Provenances need an instinct and then countless library hours, but I almost always buy coins absent provenance information. So it&#039;s cost-free. Bronzes … well they can be expensive but if you scour every possible venue they don&#039;t have to be. Whereas Julius Caesar portraits are always expensive, and thus less of an achievement.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;cheap or free&quot; is a good motto.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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