Ancient Secret Santa 2015

Love the Ephesus coin.

 

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Awesome steve

Well I opened mine, a bottle of Chateauneuf de Pap, my all time favourite wine, so huge thanks to Collect89 (I have already PMd him).

I am a happy bunny, soon to be a tipsy bunny

 

Hic

 

Come for the bee and stay for the Nab text awesome!!!!

 

pish..you got booze? AWESOME!!

that little bee is cool stevex, but i really like the nabatean seems very nice...good facial detail!

 

ok, here's mine!



Byzantine AE Follis,Heraclius, 610-641 AD
O: Heraclius Constantine, Hercalius, and Martina. R: Large M, monogram to left. Constantinople mint. SB 808

For those not familiar with byzantine coins much, this is a nice example of the type. i did have one of these, but this one is a substantial upgrade that i'm delighted to have. here is my old one..





see? much nicer. and my old one is pretty much going rate. my sneaky secret santa had the coin shipped directly from the seller...so i'm not sure who he/she is. whoever you are, thank you very much secret santa!

 

Its a great looking byzantine, congrats.

I need that emperor still too.

 

Cool gifts, chrsmat (congrats)

Ummm, are we supposed to fess-up if we know our Secret Santas, or is that a guessing game when things are finished, or what? (I know my secret Santa and my Santee knows that it was me!!)

 

Still eagerly awaiting my SS.

 

=> ahhh crap, sorry A-Noob ... I totally forgot to send your coin!!

just jokes, bro (I'm not your SS)

... were you naughty?

 

I don't think so but if I was I should be getting coal, but regs stipulate it has to be No. 2 Fuel Oil with a Sulfur content of less than 500 ppm, but if you can prove the flash point is above 149F than you dont have to ship hazardous.

 

Me three Masternoob, lots of time. we still have 7 days till Christmas Eve.

 

Couldn't wait any longer. Was greeted with this very nice Byzantine trachy ("cup-coin") of Emperor Alexios III.



Been looking around for a good example to be my second trachy in my collection and this fits the bill perfectly. Only minor complaint is that my SS didn't write me Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, but this probably happens often with online Secret Santa exchanges.
Thanks for the coin SS.

 

Your SS bought that from me and instructed me to send it to you directly, so the lack of festive greetings is my fault!

 

Hmmmm? ...

=> yes, JA seems like the perfect heartless bastard to take-over my postal service

 

I was actually surprised that mail gets to your igloo so quickly. They must have some fast dogs up there.

 

It looks like my SS gift was delivered to the office yesterday but we were closed. Someone must've been there to receive it. I'll get it on Monday, yippeee! I don't know if my recipient has received his coin yet. The package isn't trackable. I hope it makes it there before D-day .

 

Nah, its not you, but thanks for the gesture though. Can't go wrong with soulless cat

 

And ones that track real well, like, how's a mailman supposed to find Steve in all of this?



Where's Waldo has nothing on Where's Steve.