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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2918933, member: 42634&quot;]Oh man, the drought is over!&nbsp; I haven&#039;t picked up an ancient coin&nbsp; since July!!!&nbsp; Brutal!</p><p>Went to a small coin show in Evansville Indiana over the weekend, done by a local coin club every Saturday after Thanksgiving.&nbsp; Plus there is a casino at the place they have the show, so my wife goes and plays slots while I gamble buying coins.&nbsp; &nbsp; I think it&#039;s about the 4th year I&#039;ve gone, several people still remembered me as &quot;the ancients guy&quot;.&nbsp; LOL!&nbsp; Mainly US stuff, had to look hard to find some world coins even, but found some cool ones I&#039;ll post in the world coins thread.&nbsp; I did find a couple ancients and an acient style modern coin however.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>First, a coin that I tough looked descent, but it was in a stapled flip and I couldn&#039;t open it up.&nbsp; Through the glare it looked ok.&nbsp;&nbsp; I needed a coin of Victorinus so I took a gamble for 12 bucks.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>FAIL.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]706424[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Man, this this is much rougher than I thought.&nbsp; It does look better in hand...but not that much.&nbsp;&nbsp; Oh well, you win some you loose some.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a modern coin, but I&#039;ll post it here anyway.&nbsp; Modern era coins struck like ancients are always something I&#039;m interested in, and this is one of the last struck coins made in Afghanistan, dated 1878.&nbsp; There aren&#039;t many stuck coins later than this period, I know someone has one here from the 20th century.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Within a couple of years Afghanistan switched to milled coins.&nbsp; Decent rupee for 10 bucks!&nbsp; I&#039;ll call this one a win!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]706417[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a cool little medieval coin I picked up, for 39 bucks I&#039;ll chalk this up as a win as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]706425[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a sharp little coin!&nbsp; I have a few Hungarian &quot;Bela&quot; coins, but didn&#039;t have one of Bela II.&nbsp; I guess this guy was called &quot;Bela The blind&quot;.&nbsp; Seems as a child he was blinded in one of the usual Byzantine style change of power/mutilation things that seem to go on quite a bit at the time.&nbsp; Well, I don&#039;t know the details, but he made it to the throne despite his lack of eyes.&nbsp; Ironic that those missing eyes are so prominent on his coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post anything you would like!&nbsp; How about a nice Victorinus?&nbsp; Some stuck moderns?&nbsp; Anything from from medieval Hungary?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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