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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8231572, member: 26430&quot;]Congratulations! It&#039;s always very much appreciated when BCD’s tag(s) have been preserved -- but quite a nice prize to get his tag AND photo! A number of his Thessalian photos were also shown in a previous thread in 2016 (in which [USER=80317]@ab initio[/USER] himself chimed in to respond that, yes, he did take those Polaroid photos and cut them out himself): <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bcd-coins-whats-included.281007/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bcd-coins-whats-included.281007/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bcd-coins-whats-included.281007/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One reason (but only one) I&#039;ve been interested in and included many of his coins in my &quot;Modern History of Ancient Coins&quot; sub-collection (or &quot;Modern Social Lives of Ancient Coins,&quot; I can&#039;t decide): Though he had coins with 5- and 6-figure price tags, he seemingly devoted great attention to many thousands of ordinary small bronze coins and silver fractions (at least in the mid-to-high tens of thousands of them, including the massive CNG group lots of BCD Thessaly Duplicates, maybe more). The amount of time and effort he put into the Thessaly coll. alone boggles the mind.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got somewhere around 50-100 ex-BCD coins (some here will have many more, since CNG sold group lots containing hundreds and even 1,000+ coins of his from single cities – all with tags!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of mine have tags, but only two with his cutout photos. I’m always sad when any collector tags have been lost by their prior stewards, so I’ve been taking photos of all mine (I have a small in-progress database of collector tags). It’s always great to see others photo their tags (in case they’re ever lost, the info is preserved).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few (tags not to scale!!):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447193[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But I don’t seem to have photographed my two pairs of ex-BCD photos before putting them in the bank with the ex-BCD coins! But here are the coins, a pair of obols, Duplicates from the BCD Collection of Lokris-Phokis:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447189[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447190[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Larissa Drachm was BCD Thessaly II 218. It was illustrated in Lorber’s (2009) SNR article on the “Thessaly, 1993 Hoard (CH IX, 64)” – though I didn&#039;t get photos with the coin, I’m fairly confident the photo she used BCD’s:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447191[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447192[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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