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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5362332, member: 110504&quot;]Very impressive, [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER], not least for your eclecticism!&nbsp; My first pick was your remarkably late denarius of Julius Caesar --with kudos for your willingness to let scarcity and historical significance win out over condition!&nbsp; (Athenian tets are still out of my range, even though they&#039;re thick as flies on the market; my eyes just sort of glaze over.&nbsp; ...Same with medieval gold, fun as it is to look at.)</p><p>I&#039;ve been wanting a representative fals of Kilwa for a while.&nbsp; Congratulations on landing that one!&nbsp; Fantastic example.</p><p>And I was watching that AR of Ezana.&nbsp; It&#039;s stunning --and, Promise, I didn&#039;t bid on it!!!&nbsp; Here&#039;s mine, just from over the past year.&nbsp; But No, besides the amazing strike, yours is of the key transitional interval in his reign, between the pre-Christian crescent and star and the gold issues with crosses.&nbsp; ...Evoking Constantine I&#039;s initial ambivalence about advertising his adherence to Christianity.[ATTACH=full]1227724[/ATTACH]</p><p>...Why not.&nbsp; Here&#039;s the earlier one of Aphilas (c. 300 ACE), from the same auction.[ATTACH=full]1227731[/ATTACH]</p><p>...Right, your cabinet is pretty great, too![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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