Sorry echizento, I'll take the hint and stop posting these. I was sort of hoping that it'd be entertaining for those that know these coins (similar to your other thread, but probably much more basic).
FWIW I have been trying, and I have been going through ERIC. It's not so clear to a novice though. E.g. Septimius Severus has 75 obverses, 345 reverses, and 200 types, and 4 mints. Trying to match up the images in ERIC is also daunting - for Sept Sev. there are 10 busts, and 200 types. I'm still at the point where I'm trying to read the darn letters properly. I guess my 'wants' in terms of buying ancient coins is larger than my brain is at processing them...so maybe that's a good hint for me to slow down, or maybe just switch to buying fewer more pricey coins. Also FWIW, I'm not trying to make any sort of profit out of these...I simply like the idea of having a large collection of varied ancient coins. When I find out who they are, I enjoy reading about them more (rather than reading about the characters first, and then finding the coins).
Anyway, apologies, I'll stop posting these! I can entirely understand how these could be annoying, 6 strings of posts every night! (I stopping thanking everyone in each thread to avoid it coming to the top of the pile and bugging everyone)
Edited by markbaer
02/07/2015 6:52 pm