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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2199181, member: 19463"]I have zero interest in a collection of this sort but already did one, in effect, when I selected the coins used to illustrate my vocabulary pages. They were coins that illustrated what I felt needed to be illustrated. You will say I have too many Republicans and Greeks but you can cut to fit.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I rather like JA's list of 8 but would suggest expanding it to 10 and making it one coin from each of the ten volumes of RIC. The editors of RIC felt the need to divide volume 4 into three parts and volume 5 into two so I could see a group of 13 coins having merit here as well. Volume 10 should have been split into two so that would be 14 coins. IMHO volume 2 could have been split into Flavians and Nerva-Trajan-Hadrian making a reasonable group of 15 coins. I offer one of each as a sample.</p><p><br /></p><p>The RIC comprises 13 volumes:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>volume 1 : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" rel="nofollow">Augustus</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius" rel="nofollow">Vitellius</a> (31 BC–69 AD), by C. H. V. Sutherland, London, 1923 (revised 1984)</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]428228[/ATTACH]</p><ul> <li>volume 2 : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian" rel="nofollow">Vespasian</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian" rel="nofollow">Hadrian</a> (69–138), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Mattingly" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Mattingly" rel="nofollow">Harold Mattingly</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Allen_Sydenham&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Allen_Sydenham&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Edward Allen Sydenham</a>, London, 1926</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]428229[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]428231[/ATTACH]</p><ul> <li>volume 3 : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" rel="nofollow">Antoninus Pius</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus" rel="nofollow">Commodus</a> (138–192), by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham, London, 1930</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]428232[/ATTACH]</p><ul> <li>volume 4a : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax" rel="nofollow">Pertinax</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta" rel="nofollow">Geta </a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla" rel="nofollow">Caracalla</a> (193–217), by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, London, 1936</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]428233[/ATTACH]</p><ul> <li>volume 4b : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrinus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrinus" rel="nofollow">Macrinus</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupienus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupienus" rel="nofollow">Pupienus</a> (217–238), by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham, C. H. V. Sutherland London, 1930</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]428235[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>volume 4c : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_III" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_III" rel="nofollow">Gordian III</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranius_Antoninus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranius_Antoninus" rel="nofollow">Uranius Antoninus</a> (238–253), by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, C.H.V. Sutherland, London, 1949</li> </ul><p>[ATTACH=full]428236[/ATTACH]</p><p>Continued next post...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2199181, member: 19463"]I have zero interest in a collection of this sort but already did one, in effect, when I selected the coins used to illustrate my vocabulary pages. They were coins that illustrated what I felt needed to be illustrated. You will say I have too many Republicans and Greeks but you can cut to fit. [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html[/url] I rather like JA's list of 8 but would suggest expanding it to 10 and making it one coin from each of the ten volumes of RIC. The editors of RIC felt the need to divide volume 4 into three parts and volume 5 into two so I could see a group of 13 coins having merit here as well. Volume 10 should have been split into two so that would be 14 coins. IMHO volume 2 could have been split into Flavians and Nerva-Trajan-Hadrian making a reasonable group of 15 coins. I offer one of each as a sample. The RIC comprises 13 volumes: [LIST] [*]volume 1 : [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus']Augustus[/URL]–[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius']Vitellius[/URL] (31 BC–69 AD), by C. H. V. Sutherland, London, 1923 (revised 1984) [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]428228[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*]volume 2 : [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vespasian']Vespasian[/URL]–[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian']Hadrian[/URL] (69–138), by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Mattingly']Harold Mattingly[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Allen_Sydenham&action=edit&redlink=1']Edward Allen Sydenham[/URL], London, 1926 [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]428229[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]428231[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*]volume 3 : [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoninus_Pius']Antoninus Pius[/URL]–[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus']Commodus[/URL] (138–192), by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham, London, 1930 [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]428232[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*]volume 4a : [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax']Pertinax[/URL]–[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Septimius_Geta']Geta [/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla']Caracalla[/URL] (193–217), by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, London, 1936 [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]428233[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*]volume 4b : [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrinus']Macrinus[/URL]–[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupienus']Pupienus[/URL] (217–238), by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham, C. H. V. Sutherland London, 1930 [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]428235[/ATTACH] [LIST] [*]volume 4c : [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_III']Gordian III[/URL]–[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranius_Antoninus']Uranius Antoninus[/URL] (238–253), by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham, C.H.V. Sutherland, London, 1949 [/LIST] [ATTACH=full]428236[/ATTACH] Continued next post...[/QUOTE]
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