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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2640619, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Yup, thanks to the great effort of my cool coin friend </span><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30059">Ed Snible</span></font><span style="color: #0000ff">, I was able to set the trap and capture the illusive </span><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30059">Pontos Laodikia</span></font><span style="color: #0000ff"> aegis coin!! </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; also known as my </span><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30059">&quot;Bigfoot&quot;</span></font><span style="color: #0000ff"> coin (yah, I seriously didn&#039;t think that I&#039;d ever find one and complete this mini-set of mine, but cha-ching =&gt; with a little help from my coin-friends, I managed to capture the missing link) </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">What an awesome feeling!! (my OCD is finally back in &quot;check&quot;)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... anyway ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #b30059">TIF</span></font><span style="color: #0000ff"> tried convincing me to make a grand research effort and wow you guys with an awesome stage-show!! ... but sadly, that is far more in her ball-park (she always has such great thread presentations, eh?) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">However, as you know I&#039;m a wee bit more off-the-cuff and ... well, a lot coin-lazier!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">So, I&#039;m gonna stick to what got me here ... I&#039;m gonna show-off my cool coins and hope that you join-in and love &#039;em!! </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Oh, but my wonderful and clever coin-girlfriend did help me out tremendously with some awesome coin &quot;jazz-hands&quot; props ... perhaps you&#039;ll recognize her sweet style?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Pontus, Laodiceia (Laodikia), AE20</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">85-65 BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 20 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 8.69 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Gorgoneion, facing, centered in aegis</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Winged Nike r. carrying palm branch (ΛAOΔI-KEIAΣ)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: BMC 1</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: Sweet-n-rare!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH=full]582510[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">What was the Aegis?</font></b></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... all of those quotes were cut from <b><font size="5">Ed Snible&#039;s awesome link</font></b> (below) ... </span></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://snible.org/coins/aegis2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/aegis2.html" rel="nofollow">http://snible.org/coins/aegis2.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Hey Ed &amp; TIF =&gt; thanks again for all of your coin-friendship and assistance (you guys rock!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Oh, and I was gonna wait until later to show-off TIF&#039;s other awesome favour, but I might as well pull-out all of the cool jazz-hands props right away, eh?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">How fricken cool is this?!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]582520[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>She made me an awesome coin-tray!! (wow, that&#039;s pretty fricken cool, eh?)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>[ATTACH=full]582521[/ATTACH] </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>Cheers to all of my great coin friends here at CoinTalk</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>Oh, and cheers to actually completing one of my coin-avenues!!</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>=&gt; only $660 (delivered) for the entire collection!! ... over 1/2 of that was for the two rarest (Chewy &amp; Latka)</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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