Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1970714, member: 19463"]I mentioned  earlier giving a 15 minute talk on ancients for people who collect modern at a local club.  I survived but am glad its over.  Nevermore. At the start I mentioned that I placed a US cent in each group to provide size reference.  During the question session that followed, one man asked if that coin was copper.  He was impressed by how similar it was to a US coin.  That pretty much defined the audience.  One man was able to date that cent from the reverse; more than one did not recognize a coin as old as a wheat cent.  I attach the images used.  On each, I selected a coin or two to explain in a little detail but spent no more than one minute on any slide except for the popular ancients group which got 2 minutes. You can write your own text and pretend you were there (it will be better than what I said).  Feel free to use these groups if you are asked to speak to a local club and you don't have the sense to decline.  I believe most people here have seen all of these and will recognize the types just from being on CT. [ATTACH=full]349696[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349697[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349698[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349699[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349700[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349701[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349702[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349703[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349704[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]349705[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]