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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bradley Trotter, post: 4985247, member: 101226&quot;]For me, it was creating an account here on Cointalk early last year. I&#039;ve been collecting coins with varying levels of seriousness ever since I was in Elementary School. I started collecting coins much more seriously in 2013 when my grandparents gifted me an ANA membership, and when I became active in my local coin club. Since then, I began collecting world coins in 2015, starting with the coinage of Great Britain and their empire. When it came to ancient coins, I can attribute two factors for what caused me to start collecting. In February of 2019, I created a Cointalk account, and I started quietly browsing the ancient coins forum. Needless to say, I was quite impressed as the dealers and collectors I knew in my local area at the time didn&#039;t dabble in ancients or anything foreign for the most part. My second motivation for collecting ancient coins was when I transferred to a new university. One of my classes in my first semester dealt exclusively with the Ancient and Medieval world and Rome in particular. I moved to Tennessee last year, and I live in the outer-suburbs of Nashville. Fortunately for me, one of the local coin shows has several dealers who deal exclusively in world and ancient coins. When I go to coin shows, I intend to find coins for my various foreign Dansco type sets or cherry-pick foreign coin bulk boxes. However, this time I went with the intent to find a nice ancient coin, and I ended up buying a well-circulated Gordian III antoninianus for about $20.00. As of today, my ancient coin collection is roughly two-dozen coins. Needless to say, I have a particular taste for coinage from the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty and anything from the 3rd century.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197731[/ATTACH]</p><p>Gordian III</p><p>AR Antoninianus</p><p>Obverse: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.</p><p>Reverse: PROVIDENT AVG, Providence standing left with scepter, pointing wand at globe at feet.</p><p>RIC 149, RSC 298[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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