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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Restitutor, post: 4748153, member: 112621&quot;]I’m going to focus solely on Roman coin collecting as it’s what my focus is in:</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my 2 cents, but I wonder how much of it is because of how we teach Roman history. We always talk about the emperors, the strong men, and naturally boys and men are attracted to that. What guy hasn’t day-dreamed of following in the footsteps of Caesar, Trajan, or Justinian? Revering men like Camillus or Scipio Africanus. The teaching of history is very “Great Man” oriented, and that attraction to history can generally lead to ancient coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a female perspective.. they’re pretty much non-existent up to the imperial era. And even then, Livia, Messalina, Agrippina the Younger, these aren’t really great women to look up to with the way they’re taught. You have to go all the way to Pompeia Plotina and Faustina the Elder before you really reach admirable women, and let’s be honest who outside of semi-professional historians knows about them?</p><p><br /></p><p>So in summation, I think ancient Roman coins attract more men because the history of Rome is taught very man-centric. Perhaps if we learned more about Severina, or Cleopatra was taught as more than just an eastern temptress, more women may be brought into the numismatic world? Just my thoughts, as another man...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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