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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 8132958, member: 44106&quot;]Interesting thread... I had not previously thought about sub-categorizing my collecting activities from this perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would go with the following: </p><ul> <li><b>Geographic</b> for the two major collections I&#039;m focused on: Apulian Magna Grecian coins (Tarentum and Messapian mints) and coins minted in Ostfriesland. This is primarily because I have ancestry in both of these regions.</li> <li>My core Roman collection includes <b>biographic</b> (I collect a lot of Hadrian) and is primarily <b>monometallic</b> (mainly denarii, although the later Roman sections devolve into antoninianii and AEs). For the most part, this collection loosely aims at collecting one of every emperor, although I am more interested in the historical aspects captured by each coin, eg Hadrian&#039;s travel series or other geographical personifications, the Titus elephant denarius commemorating completion of the Colosseum, etc. </li> <li>I am also prone to <b>aesthetic</b> coins which catch my eye but these coins also need to have historical significance. One example is the Athenian Owl I acquired this year.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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