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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 5182791, member: 10461"]Folks, I must apologize for an unforeseen situation (which I probably should have foreseen). Lot #5, which has proven to be the most popular piece on offer here so far (and my personal favorite of the 20 here), has to be withdrawn. #5. Greece (Mysia, Pergamon): bronze Æ15, ca. 2nd-1st centuries BC; Asklepios / Serpent staff<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/greece-mysia-pergamon-bronze-%C3%8615-ca-2nd-1st-centuries-bc-asklepios-serpent-staff.364753/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/greece-mysia-pergamon-bronze-%C3%8615-ca-2nd-1st-centuries-bc-asklepios-serpent-staff.364753/"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/YnZwEjXnQKCcsUTXvwKh_Asclepius-gradient.png?w=400&h=400" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a> Why?  Simply because there was, as it happens, a sort of a prior claim on it. You see, I had just closed my Giveaway #48 before posting this one.  <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/closed-lordm-giveaway-48-pick-your-prize.369348/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/closed-lordm-giveaway-48-pick-your-prize.369348/">Giveaway #48</a> was a "pick your prize" giveaway, which meant the winner got a voucher with which to shop my inventory and pick his prize(s). When I posted this giveaway, #48 was closed but I had not yet heard back from [USER=100070]@happy_collector[/USER], who won it, about his selection(s).  (I jumped the gun a little bit when I posted this giveaway before hearing back from him.) As luck would have it, he collects ancients, and he chose this Mysia piece.  So I have to withdraw it from the prize offerings here. (Go figure.  It's been sitting in my inventory for months.  Then suddenly an Ancients collector just happened to win Giveaway #48, and out of 86 coins in my inventory, he chose that one!  Can't fault his taste, though.) So, sorry to be a heartbreaker and an unintentional tease.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But I'll tell you what: if any of you who had selected coin #5 in this giveaway ends up winning the drawing, you'll have to pick something else, but I'll make it up to you by sweetening the pot with something extra, OK? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> PS- there are no other "pick your prize" giveaways pending before the drawing for this one, so that situation will not arise again- at least not in regard to the remaining 19 coins on offer here.[/QUOTE]

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