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Message:: [QUOTE="stlnats, post: 25458469, member: 41066"]I agree with the notion that there are no rules, you can assemble a set with whatever you like.  I shared my current set in a 12 Caesar's thread in May so won't duplicate it here except by a link to that discussion. <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/caligula-down-now-just-two-left-to-finish-the-twelve-caesars.412377/page-2" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/caligula-down-now-just-two-left-to-finish-the-twelve-caesars.412377/page-2">Caligula down! Now just two left to finish the Twelve Caesars! | Page 2 | Coin Talk</a>  Here's the criteria that I came up with that are meaningful and work for me.  Of course, YMMV.  These are frankly more aspirational than "black letter law" but give some direction to my search and an effort for the set to be coherent beyond "just" being a 12 Caesar's set: 1. decent portrait with a relatively full legend 2. coins that tell a story/associated with an event related to the emperor (using Foss' Historical Coins as a guide) 3. perhaps due to age, a bias to bigger coins which are easier to see 4. coins I like (especially the big silvers of the east, which generally are easier to see LOL) 5. coins can be replaced if I find another more interesting.  The only hard rule for me is that the set must have a "tribute penny" but again that's just me.  #5 ensures that this is always a work in progress which again has a certain appeal for me. So, my answer to the title of the thread is: whatever you like and whatever works for you.  PS have fun putting together this set and let you imagination roam free.  Sort of the whole reason to collect, for me at least.[/QUOTE]

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