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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2295358, member: 76194"]<font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Ok, first of all, I honestly did not mean to have this opened before Christmas, but I do have other people working at the office who open the mail for me. Although the instructions are not to open any personal mail (ie. mail coming from a non-client and non-official addressee) sometimes it is hard to determine what is what and things will get opened by my assistant/paralegal. I was expecting a tablet I ordered for the office from Amazon, so the package got mistaken for that and opened when I wasn't in the office.</span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">I don't know who sent this as I cannot yet associate real names to forum handle names for everyone here, but whomever it was, thank you. You gave me the best gift someone new to the hobby could get...the gift of knowledge.</span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">First up: 100 Greatest Ancient Coins. I drooled over the pictures in the book all afternoon. Can't wait to read it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]460733[/ATTACH] </span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Second up: Handbook of Ancient Greek & Roman Coins. Browsed through it. Looks like a basic guide to help someone like me get more immersed into ancient Roman and Greek coinage. It will be very useful for me in the future.</span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]460732[/ATTACH] </span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">And last, it's not an ancient coin, but its the icing on top of the cake. </span><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Silver is always welcomed!</b></span><span style="color: #0000ff"> I am very familiar with Queen Wilhelmina of the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255)">Netherlands as an immportant symbol against the barbarism of Nazism, so I'm glad to have a coin of hers.</span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]460734[/ATTACH] </span></font></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2295358, member: 76194"][SIZE=5][COLOR=#0000ff]Ok, first of all, I honestly did not mean to have this opened before Christmas, but I do have other people working at the office who open the mail for me. Although the instructions are not to open any personal mail (ie. mail coming from a non-client and non-official addressee) sometimes it is hard to determine what is what and things will get opened by my assistant/paralegal. I was expecting a tablet I ordered for the office from Amazon, so the package got mistaken for that and opened when I wasn't in the office. I don't know who sent this as I cannot yet associate real names to forum handle names for everyone here, but whomever it was, thank you. You gave me the best gift someone new to the hobby could get...the gift of knowledge. First up: 100 Greatest Ancient Coins. I drooled over the pictures in the book all afternoon. Can't wait to read it :) [ATTACH=full]460733[/ATTACH] Second up: Handbook of Ancient Greek & Roman Coins. Browsed through it. Looks like a basic guide to help someone like me get more immersed into ancient Roman and Greek coinage. It will be very useful for me in the future. [ATTACH=full]460732[/ATTACH] And last, it's not an ancient coin, but its the icing on top of the cake. [/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][B]Silver is always welcomed![/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff] I am very familiar with Queen Wilhelmina of the [/COLOR][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 255)]Netherlands as an immportant symbol against the barbarism of Nazism, so I'm glad to have a coin of hers.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff] [ATTACH=full]460734[/ATTACH] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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