Its Time To Create Subs Categories For Greek, Roman And Medival Coins?

I understand how you feel, Nick. But the problem is that the number of people who regularly post in this section (Ancient, Greek, Roman, and Medieval) is so small. Unlike at Forum, where they have many more folks who read and contribute to more specialized sections, we have a small core group of perhaps fewer than a dozen "regulars." I think that if CCF broke up this area into more specialized sections like Greek, Roman, Eastern Empires, Byzantine, etc., traffic and contributions in each area would be too light. It's not an ideal situation to clump it all together, perhaps, but I can understand why it has to be.

For me, the positive side is how much I have learned here that I would not have learned if areas were separated. I suspect that 90% of my CCF time would be spent in Eastern and Greek sections if everything was separated. I would have missed so many gems (on medieval, Roman, Asian, etc.) that have come through this area over the past few years.

I hope you will stick around and continue to contribute, Nick, even though you're frustrated with the format.

I agree that within the CCF, that ancients sbould be left as one subforum.

Looking at a very rough avg posts (#replies/#topics) based on this moment - this ancients forum is not averaging that much lower than US CLASSIC or Canadian coins forums. And is on par with US MODERN and better than US PAPER. So looking at it that way I would say you ancient folks are holding your own very well ...
And I agree that my idea of adding the type into the subject would become an annoyance to the poster and not always applicable

Interesting question @marsias. I use CCF as the sole source for my online coin education, so it is the only system that I know. I actually like these somewhat disparate topics all glommed together as it has greatly increased my knowledge (and interest) in several other areas. With increased traffic and posts, I'm sure that Bobby would be all over sub-dividing things appropriately.

We might not have the activity that other forums have, but what we have is a close knit group of collectors with diverse interests. IMO to form sub sections would limit exposure to all areas of ancient coin collecting. When I first started collecting I only collected Roman coins, if it weren't for the exposure I got from this and other forums to other types of ancients I would have not expanded my interests into other areas. I don't really collect Chinese or Islamic coinages but I still enjoy reading and seeing all the posts about them. We as collectors and historians should not limit our knowledge to just one area. Sorry but I don't see this change happening.

This is certainly not my area of expertise but, I have a general thought.

@marsias

Seeing that you joined a tad over one week ago, you really should spend a little more time interacting with other members in the forum to get a better feel for how it works.

If you're interested in only Greek coins, you may be spending some time in the "Unidentified" subforum as well. If you click on something and it turns out to not be Greek, either learn about something different or move on to something else.

I disagree that typing the country (or empire) of origin in a topic title is bothersome or too much work. How many letters and how much time are we talking about there? Also, having more specific topic titles aids forum search results.