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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jdmKY, post: 4985025, member: 115308&quot;]I have always been a collector of something - stamps, magazines, American coins, etc. But I lost interest in each of these. In the late ‘70’s I got married in St. Thomas, USVI. Big mistake, but that’s another story for another time. While there, I went to Cardow Jewelers and saw a large display of ancient coins, each packaged in a lovely little padded box with a small typewritten description. And they were inexpensive! I bought a bronze sestertius of Vespasian for just a few dollars. When I got home I just kind of tucked it away.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 4 years later, I came across the coin as I was doing a little housekeeping. I thought, “This is pretty interesting that something this old is also inexpensive. That must mean there a lot of them available”.</p><p><br /></p><p>So my next step was to buy some books to learn more about the coins. I started with David Sear’s books on both Greek and Roman coins. I decided I’d start out with Greek coins due to their artistry.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was quickly overwhelmed with all of the options and realized I should narrow my focus. I remembered that when I started researching ancients, the one coin that really caused a visceral reaction for me was the EID MAR of Brutus. I was amazed that an act of such massive historical significance was not just memorialized in a coin, but that the coin was the product of one of the perpetrators himself! </p><p><br /></p><p>After reading more about the Imperatorial period and the personalities involved, I was hooked! It was early in the 1980’s and I decided to only collect coins from that period of Roman history. I have never sold any of my coins and probably never will. Sometimes I would go several years without any new additions, but the collection gives me tremendous satisfaction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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