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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 4067310, member: 83175&quot;]I will show you two coins I have a crush on.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a very bad photo&#039; of a nice Syracuse tetradrachm (Tudeer 82, SNG ANS 290).&nbsp;&nbsp; I had seen it on the Spink website and thought it was nice and went to the London Coin Fair in November 2007 and there she was in the flesh.&nbsp;&nbsp; I negotiated a small discount, ran out to an ATM and returned and she was mine.&nbsp;&nbsp; I carried her around in my pocket for a while and it was months before I bought another coin.</p><p>It&#039;s obviously a well-worn coin and the obverse isn&#039;t great, but the Arethusa head is really beautiful in real life, a serene time traveller that I hope to enjoy for a few more decades.&nbsp;&nbsp; I need to take a new photo&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_SyracuseTet.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second was love at first sight - at the Irish International Coin Fair in Feb. 2010.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mark Rasmussen doesn&#039;t have many ancient coins, but he had a few on this occasion.&nbsp;&nbsp; I passed his table and someone was holding this.&nbsp;&nbsp; I thought &quot;Wow!, don&#039;t buy it! - did I say that aloud?&quot;, took a deep breath, wandered around the room and returned as soon as the coast was clear.&nbsp;&nbsp; Larissa was still there!&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought her and a lovely Chios hemidrachm.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_LarissaDrachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, nice thread!</p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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