A Guide to Ancient Coin Collecting

A perspective from coinweek on ancient coin collection, specifically I suppose on choosing a collection focus.

My own collecting is not focused per se, I collect what I find cool. Still, over the years some themes have emmerged:

• I like coins of Philip I the Arab because they are affordable in good grade and have many cool reverses
• I like small greek coins because they often feature interesting gods and other themes and the variety is so great
• I like coins from Rhodes as they feature a rose and generally look nice