I'm new here at Coin Talk, first thread

Yeah, yours is a bit Modern to me... Even Carthage had some cool Helmets:


Carthage Iberia 218-208 BCE AE 13 1.4g Calco Barcid Military Mint 2nd Punic Tanit Helmet

 

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That's a beautiful china cabinet, @cpm9ball ! I inherited one very similar to it from my dearly departed “Grammy.” Mine does not have the cool shorter section at the top. Awesome collection of glasses! I have a few vintage ones myself and I'd like to PM some pics to you when I find them.

I hope you don't live in a part of the country prone to earth tremors!
Sorry, that was an absurd statement

 

It took me quite a few years to find a furniture store that could make it for me. I had it customized by a business that sold furniture made by Amish craftsmen. The original design only had 3 shelves in the lower compartment. I had them modify it to accommodate 7 shelves. It holds about 1,000 shot glasses.

Chris

 

Huh.. looking at it i would have guessed it to be an antique.. they did an excellent job! (and you did to on collecting)

 

Thanks! The furniture store is Simply Amish in Ft. Myers, FL. I bought it in 1998.

Chris

 

Not actually a coin, but more of a medal.........honkin' hunk of silver, and I enjoy the design as well.

 

Welcome to CT and the dark side (ancient coin collecting)

Sulla RR Denarius

 

Thanks everybody!

 

@cpm9ball I thought I had a photo of the Christmas tree made from empty Patron bottles outside the Solaria Cantina at the Gaylord Opryland Complex. It even changed colors.

I was just guiding a group of 45 Scandinavians through LA, MS, and TN. I figured they would be blown away by the fantastic gardens as my wife and I were; they were but so many of them got lost so many times it was disconcerting to a third of them. I got lost, too, but since I didn’t see any dead bodies in the bushes I figured everyone finds their way eventually.

Steve

 

That would be cool to see!

Chris

 

Welcome to this side of the world!

 

Welcome aboard - although I'm a silver stacker (90% silver circulated USA coins), my oldest silver coin is a Mexico City minted 8 Reales from 1795 with chop marks similar to the photo below:

Have fun, enjoy the CT community

 

The mint hasn't done much right the last few decades imho

By the way, we ancient ones welcome you new ones to Coin Talk

 

This is a nice place to be. I'm glad I joined.

 

@asheland - I always wanted to get into ancients when I stumbled upon this fine little group at the CT Ancient forum. As a group, they have the ability to suck people in like a well oiled cult. Give them a small opening and they will have you neck deep in ancients.

That's what they did to me and I can't thank them enough!

 

Beautiful! That looks like a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture.

 

Welcome

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Welcome from Wales! You'll love it here, best forum on the web for coins and more helpful experts than you could shake a stick at!