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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8313795, member: 120820&quot;]It seems a rather oddly conceived collection. Having seen who&#039;s included from the tetrarchic/Constantinian era, and who&#039;s not, I&#039;m left scratching my head as to what definition of a &quot;Tyrant&quot; was used as a criteria.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have Constantine I included, represented by a decidedly random group of 3 solidi, but none of his sons (either as caesars or augusti), nor his eastern co-emperors Galerius, Maximinus II and Licinius.</p><p><br /></p><p>The grouping by rivers is odd too. I suppose this was meant to be cute or something, but it seems pretty random. The roman emperors are all considered &quot;Tyrants of the Tiber&quot; regardless of whether they were western or eastern based.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree the whole &quot;most valuable collection&quot; marketing angle is pretty tacky. It&#039;s hard to guess if this is what O&#039;Dowd regards as the most significant aspect of his collection, or if this is just targeting a particular tacky audience who want to go see a billionaire&#039;s collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>The website does nothing to alter the impression of tackiness and non-numismatic focus, with emperors sorted only by name rather than date, yet his &quot;book store&quot; (where he&#039;s flogging $10 brochures of each part of the collection) offers 9 different sorting options for his 7 &quot;products&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was cool to see his US type set (or part set - whatever it is) all on one page, especially as I&#039;m not familiar with it having grown up in the UK learning about British coins instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, each to their own, but with unlimited resources I&#039;d have thought a complete collection of something would be more impressive than &quot;most valuable coins of random dudes living on rivers, of whom you might want to buy a $10 brochure&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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