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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4571470, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;d love to visit Cappadocia, but I&#039;ll pass on the balloon ride.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the view is phenomenal and the ride enjoyable to doughtier souls, but the one time I went up in one I found the experience of flying over a hundred feet in the air while dangling in a wicker laundry hamper with a huge gas jet roaring over my head to be a bit too terrifying to enjoy the view!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll go to one of Cappadocia&#039;s &quot;underground cities&quot; instead, like <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinkuyu_underground_city" rel="nofollow">Derinkuyu.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Coins?&nbsp; I just picked up two inexpensive ones, not long ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought them to give away, so anyone who wins Prize #1 in the drawing of the present giveaway (linked in my signature line) gets to pick their prize.&nbsp; And both of these coins are in that Pick Bin.&nbsp; So one or the other of these could end up being freebies for someone soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Mount Argaeus one is appealing, despite its low grade.&nbsp; And the Hadrian hemidrachm is silver and has a decent portrait, considering how inexpensive it was.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font face="Georgia">Roman Provincial (Cappadocia, Caesarea): silver hemidrachm of Hadrian, struck ca. 120-121 AD</font></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Roman Provincial (Caesarea): bronze Æ28 of Severus Alexander, ca. 222-235 AD; Mount Argaeus</b></font></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131911[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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