What Are Your Collecting Goals Right Now?

Ron White said it best: "Diamonds. That'll shut her up. For a minute."

Duct tape works fine but at some point it needs to be removed and then your in trouble

Collecing wise I have a few favourite areas, Invasion coins, Constantine Sols, Barbs and Radiates that I expect I will continue with till my time is up. More recently though I dart off into unknown areas, buy a few coins and continue to do so until I have a decent knowledge of the area.

Generally I then sell the coins and move onto pastures new, anything and everything provincial is interesting me at the minute. I'm also getting into any coins that were produced for a specific historical event.

Thanks JW, good to be back - I can also provide Duct tape to those who need it

As you can imagine, during my sixty-five years of collecting and researching Roman Imperial coins I have pursued several specialties from time to time: Julio-Claudians; Julio-Claudian Sestertii; Hadrian Sestertii; Trajan coinage; Roman Coins of the London Mint ..... and others.

In recent years I have concentrated my collecting interests on the Britannic Coinage of Constantius -- "Invasion Coinage", example coins of the Usurper Emperors of Roman Britain: Carausius & Allectus, the unreduced London Mint Folles as cataloged in RIC Volume VI, London, (Group I), the Intermediate Coinage defined by Bastien and associated British hoard finds -- and this will be my final specialization.

Here is the Photo Gallery of representative coins from my collection: http://jp29.org/cgallery.htm

Thank you jw -- but please do not be jealous - your turn will come.

James

Thanks, jw - check your e-mail.

James

Really stunning collection jamesicus. Two congrats! I only have two London-mint coins (Helena and Crispus) but I hope to acquire more. One of my goals actually is to get a coin of Constantius I minted in London for cheap, but I haven't seen any being offered, so I may just have to settle on a regular Constantius I for now (I still don't have a coin of him yet).

Nice ones like jamesicus has I would imagine go for a pretty penny, but if you are just looking to plug that London-mint hole in your collection, I've occasionally seen some cheap ones (like under $30).

Actually, the U.S. Dollar is the strongest against the Euro and the GBP I've seen in about 10 years. Last year when I traveled to Spain, 1 Euro cost $1.57. As of today, 1 Euro cost $1.22.

One of the reasons London mint coins are more expensive is the desire by the Brits to own them more than coins minted elsewhere. Understandably so. And, to some extent, many U.S. collectors identify with our British counterparts, thus also making London minted coins more desirable.

I would also add, that if you look at Jamesicus' London collection, you can see portrait qualities unseen, or at least rarely seen, from other mints. Fascinating artistry.