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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 2669854, member: 82194&quot;]My original motivation came from direct instigation of the OP [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] !!!!&nbsp; but the current motivation to collect is, like most, the history that each of these coins present. I&#039;ve been soaking up ancient history almost nonstop since August 2016 when I first bought this:</p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/CONSTANTINE-I-Silvered-Campgate.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This small cheap Constantine I Campgate has totally decimated any chance of me ever returning to US coinage.&nbsp; I may try to finish my US Dansco 7070 someday, but I&#039;ve not bought anything other than an ancient since the first shown above.&nbsp; As a kid in school I can recall briefly learning about Romans and Greeks with a smattering of mythology but that had been just a blip and long since forgotten.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember, as a young kid, my Dad bringing me coins back from his travels and then we lived in Brazil for a time and by the time I was 8 or so I had a few baggies full of coins I had collected. One summer I went to stay at my Grandfather&#039;s and he took me to a small coin shop and helped me get some 2x2&#039;s and other items that might help in organizing all my loose change which I filed away in this box:</p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/childhood_collection.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />I forgot about those coins soon after and eventually grew up. After high school I joined the Army and went to Germany for a few years where I started loving history.&nbsp; Eventually I became a book collector . . .</p><p><br /></p><p>About 5 years ago I found my old box of coins at my mom&#039;s house. Finding that box after 30 years was amazing to me and spurred again an interest in coins. I&#039;ve always bought and sold books to finance my book habit, but now I find myself buying and selling books to support my coin habit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d been mostly collecting US type coins (slabbed of course) and then zammo! I bought an ancient.&nbsp; Ancients are everything I love about books AND coins all rolled up into one.&nbsp; I can read Suetonius&#039; <i>The Lives of the Twelve Caesars </i>while holding in my hand a dupondis of Vespasian (Thank you Sir! @YOUKNOWWHO) and I can read a serious work by Michael Grant holding a coin of Marcus Aurelius and then I can just go mind numb and relax with some historical fiction by Robert Harris or I can pull from the shelf a reference work that&#039;s needed to study the coins of those I&#039;ve been reading of. What could be better?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have gotten this far and still wonder how the OP might be involved in this you may reference the little trophies in my sigline - [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] and [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] came up with the &quot;<a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/965947/numismatic-gladiator-cycle-i-index-for-the-cheap-coin-challenges-ng-1-ng10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/965947/numismatic-gladiator-cycle-i-index-for-the-cheap-coin-challenges-ng-1-ng10" rel="nofollow">Numismatic Gladiator</a>&quot; games which have been hosted over at the CU site.&nbsp; I won <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/964635/numismatic-gladiator-iii-andres-vs-dadams/p1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/964635/numismatic-gladiator-iii-andres-vs-dadams/p1" rel="nofollow">NG III</a> with a US coin and then I won again in <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/969031/numismatic-gladiator-x-the-championship-round-all-past-champions-from-ng1-ng9-face-off/p1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/969031/numismatic-gladiator-x-the-championship-round-all-past-champions-from-ng1-ng9-face-off/p1" rel="nofollow">NG X</a> with my Constantine Campgate. So there it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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