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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bcuda, post: 3648070, member: 105389&quot;]AE semis Asido (Medina Sidonia) Spain 1st century BC</p><p>Obverse, facing head of Hercules</p><p>Reverse, Two Tuna fish with punic legend</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin is very special to me in many ways ,with a little more history than some of my others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was stationed at the Naval Base Rota Spain about 30 years ago. I would go metal detecting with a Friend of mine almost every Sunday.</p><p><br /></p><p>One day we decided to look for some new places and drove around for hours looking.</p><p>We tried a lot of spots but found nothing. At our last spot for the day I found this coin in a farm field close to modern day Medina Sidonia. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of my Spanish Friends Juan Antonio (a Roman coin collector) had always expressed an interest in this coin, and before I left Spain in 1991 I traded it to Him.</p><p>I thought about my Friend Juan Antonio for years afterwards wondering what had happened to my Friend. Then in 2013 I happened upon an E-bay seller with Roman coins from Spain and He was in a town close by to my Friend so I sent Him a message through E-bay asking Him (in my bad Spanish writing ability) if He might possibly know my Friend.</p><p>I waited anxiously and within a day or so the seller responded and said He knew Juan Antonio.</p><p>&nbsp;I made contact with Juan Antonio and friended Him on facebook and even called Him on the phone. In one of our conversations I asked about the coin I traded to Him, He told me He still had it and that many people had tried to buy it from Him or trade for it but always kept it because of the friendship we had.</p><p>Not long after, I sent Juan Antonio some Spanish coins I had lost interest in. And with in a few weeks I received a package back from Him. In it was the Asido semis. He told me He knew what it meant to me and wanted me to have it back. So about 23 years later I had my coin back in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have done a few searches for this particular type of coin and it seems pretty rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]979767[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]979768[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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