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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 8132811, member: 112342&quot;]I&#039;m a mix of Eastern and a Western collector, I get Greek coins just for their art, while Roman and South Indian for their history.</p><p>One of my first mission in collecting ancient coins was to put together a set of coins from every century for the last 2 1/2 millennia, <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/going-back-in-time-a-coin-from-every-century.372117/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/going-back-in-time-a-coin-from-every-century.372117/">I did that to the best of my abilities last year!</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Regards to Roman coinage and to speak of a set, I have the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-five-good-emperors-lucius-verus-and-the-kid-who-ended-it-all.370434/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-five-good-emperors-lucius-verus-and-the-kid-who-ended-it-all.370434/">Five Good Emperors</a>, with a really nice Nerva!</p><p>Although I have no interest in making a 12 Caesars set simply because of the cost, and also I don&#039;t care for emperors like Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Claudius, Tiberius, and even Caligula. For the cost of each of those worn coins I&#039;d buy lovely Greek coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>And last but not least, I collect coins of the Tamil kingdoms, they have ~2300 years of history from when they traded with Greeks and Romans to all they way when British occupied India.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416696[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Southernmost coin is Pandya&#039;s, minted around the &#039;Sangam age&#039; of 300 BCE- 300AD. Korkai was their harbour, which traded with the Greeks, Rome and China, the Madurai coin was minted after gaining independence from the Cholas. The Chola gold shows the conquest of the neighboring kingdoms of Chera, and Pandya, depicted as the royal emblems-Cholan tiger, flanked by the Pandyan twin fish to its right, and the Cheran bow behind the tiger, all under the single rule symbolized by the umbrella, minted in the city of Thanjavur (not in this map, coz it&#039;s a much older map, but the city is around 40 miles East of Uraiyur). And finally, The Cheras from Karur, depicting bow and arrow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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