Excellent Introduction on Collecting Roman Coins

[guy]

I reprint this post (with permission from the author) on different approaches toward collecting Roman Coins. Very informative article:

 

 

 

http://dougsmith.ancients.info/acmshow.html

 

 

 

 

guy also known as gaius

[Primus Pilus]

I reprint this post (with permission from the author) on different approaches toward collecting Roman Coins. Very informative article:

 

 

 

http://dougsmith.ancients.info/acmshow.html

 

 

 

 

guy also known as gaius

 

Great link Guy...

 

It's important to really emphasize that the beginner should attempt to focus on a time period, a moneyer, an emperor, a subject, a type of coin, etc. until they really get the feel for what they are doing. When I first started, the only thought in my head was that I wanted to get a denarius of every emperor... while a relatively easy target (provided one has the funds) it lacks any sort of clarity. When it dawned on me that there were literally thousands of choices, the notion of what to look for became daunting. I re-focused my attention on Julio-Claudians and the targeting became a bit easier.

 

Later, I realized that the pre-civil war (Sullan and Marian) Republican era is more important to me on a philosophical level, but I digress...