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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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YOC - I ave a coin of campgates with the same patinas. Perhaps they were from your hoard...Couldve been a die match in there! (similarly...there could not have been, I'm fighting a losing battle which will probably take more than a couple of decades of vigilance to complete).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have collected modern coins all my life, about 92%.World coins.5% and ancient coins 3%.. have been collecting ancients for the last two years. When I would go to coin shows I would look at ancients..about 10yrs ago I wanted one ancient coin the Athen's owl, which I finely purchased early this year..after that is history..i still collect moderns and World coins, but ancients have a new first place lately ...i know this has been shown a few times, but I love this coin..   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4778 Posts |
I only collect ancients/medieval, no modern. My focus is Roman and Germanic coins from the 400s-500s AD (yes the "ugly" ones), and been lately getting into early Byzantine as well. I will occasionally venture out to other centuries (especially 600-1200 AD). One of my favorite coins from my collection, my Theodahad decanummium (not sure of the order of my top-three favorites but its definitely among them):  Edited by VisigothKing
11/17/2013 3:31 pm
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Eng that is a very nice and dare I say it..'expensive' Athenian owl!
Doucet, did you struggle to get some Constantinople commems? If so, which ones were the hardest to come by?
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Valued Member
United States
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I hate coins. I am so sick of cataloguing them non-stop - it's all I do... The things I tend to like (e.g., magnificent Roman gold medallions, stunningly beautiful Greek silver, superb Medieval issues from the Lowlands, etc.) are outside my budget, so I gave up collecting a long time ago.
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Valued Member
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so you join a coin forum?  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Valued Member
United States
104 Posts |
Yeah. Sick, isn't it? :)
John
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4778 Posts |
Since you hate coins, if you have any ancients you want to get rid off, I'd be happy to take them off your hands  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4981 Posts |
I LIKE COINS!
there aren't many coins I just don't like...but 70 % of my coin budget goes to ancients.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2480 Posts |
John, I hear ya...
When turned into a job, any hobby is at risk for becoming an unenjoyable endeavor.
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Valued Member
384 Posts |
John, If you did my job, you'd probably start enjoying yours.........  |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
201 Posts |
Yes it's hard to imagine being sick of coins however I was interested in computers once upon a time but here I am 15 years into my IT career and have got to the stage where I would probably rather clean toilets.
There are very few coins in existence that I am not at least slightly interested in. I am working on some completely impossible targets like every republican type, every emperor, every Greek city, every English penny etc. I am certain I will never get there but its fun trying all the same. When I first started I thought it would be a good investment but I didn't anticipate at the time just how much I would enjoy collecting. I have realised recently that I can't bring myself to sell any of them.
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