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I buy coins I like at a price I can afford. A problem with ancients is that there are many 'common' types that come up for sale rather infrequently and way too many to even think of owning them all. You need to buy them when you can or be comfortable with not having the opportunity again for a while. Specialized collections hit a wall in a short while where you go for periods without adding anything to your collection because you have all the easy ones. My Eastern Denarii of Septimius Severus specialty gained only two coins in 2009. For that reason I suggest everyone have two collections. One is whatever specialty interests you and one of coins outside your area of interest that for some reason you found appealing. Most ancient collectors are serial specialists and will add or change topics every so often. I have found that the coins I added to my 'unspecialized' grouping helped define the next direction I would head with my specialty collections.

Mainly what I do myself : a general collection of roman coins I like, and specialized areas : Plautilla denarii and the Divi series today, but I might add Syro-phenician tetradrachms or Alexandrian tetradrachms one day

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Hello,

Here is a 1551 Henri II (king of France) douzain aux croissants

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