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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4985323, member: 75937&quot;]I used to collect US coins as a kid, but then became more interested in collecting stamps as a teenager and young adult. I sold almost all my US coins, in fact, to fund my stamp hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a decent stamp collection and things had progressed to the point that the stamps I still needed for my collecting area became ever more difficult and pricey to obtain and I was getting discouraged and bored.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was in theology school in the late 80s and there were a lot of brick and mortar stamp and coin stores in those days. There was one in particular that had a decent stock of ancient coins and its owner knew quite a bit about them. I always admired the ancient coins when I was in the store buying stamps.</p><p><br /></p><p>I studied Latin in college and the ancient Greek language in theology school (to read the New Testament) and ancient history (for obvious reasons). I thought it would be fun to have some ancient coins and I bought my first one--this particular tribute penny:</p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197761[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And I followed this one with a Pontius Pilate bronze prutah, and bronze prutot of other figures noted in the New Testament, such as Herod Agrippa and Antonius Felix.</p><p><br /></p><p>By this time, I was hooked on ancient coins and set out to obtain Roman provincial coins from each of the cities Paul visited on his missionary journeys, which was difficult in the pre-internet days, especially as I wanted coins minted from about AD 10-55, which would have been in circulation in the cities that Paul lived and worked. Henry Lindgren at Antioch Associates was my &quot;go-to&quot; Roman provincial guy at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I then became interested in Roman coins in general and, of course, picked up a nice Greek or Byzantine here and there, and expanded my collection considerably. I&#039;m particularly fond of the Antonine and Severan dynasties and the barracks emperors of the mid third century, but don&#039;t really limit my collecting to any one historical period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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