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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3439314, member: 87809&quot;]All your stories are just fascinating and interesting! It is like reading a book. I don&#039;t think my story is interesting at all, and since when I first registered with this amazing site I didn&#039;t tell it, I will share it with you now - but I perfectly understand if you skip it because it is boring.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have bought a few coins since I started this journey because the collection I have was my father&#039;s. He was a passionate coin collector since his youth as well as his father and grandfather. I regret that during his life time I didn&#039;t show any interest in his collection (nor did my only brother). My family was from Bohemia - Sudeten Germans - and to make a sad and long story short, after WWII they were declared &quot;displaced people&quot;, stateless. Actually, an American GI brought my mom and dad hidden in a Jeep over the border from at that time the Republic of Czechoslovakia to Germany. My dad brought with him some of his coins, among them were the ones that he called &quot;baptism coins&quot; because during decades they were gifts of the family to the children. Later, from Germany, they migrated to South America were they started a new living. He continued his collection from there, even though my mom always complained that spending money on &quot;old coins&quot; was pointless. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I inherited his collection, and since my husband and I moved to the US and became American citizens, we brought the collection to the US. This is a whole different story, but the only important thing is that the coins &quot;survived&quot; the hardships of traveling under really non-ideal conditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins were in the safe-deposit box of a bank for several years, and in 2017 we wanted to continue his legacy by organizing his collection and attribute the coins (my dad had little notes on each one, but with all the traveling I only took some notes and didn&#039;t keep them with the coins. Just imagine what a mess). Organizing the collection was (and still is) a huge task for me and it was at that time when I registered as a new member of cointalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are two notes for which I don&#039;t have the corresponding coin: an Augustus As, magistrates Marcus Postumius Albinus and Lucius Porcius Capito(linus?) and a Sestertius of Hadrian - FORTVNA AVG (I don&#039;t think that I lost the coins, it maybe because he never got them).</p><p><br /></p><p>The first coin I bought was a Semis, to somehow &quot;replace&quot; the As that is missing. I found this Semis (I have not been able to find the As) of said magistrates at mrbcoins: </p><p><br /></p><p>AE Semis, 21 x 23 mm, 5.8 g;</p><p>Cartago Nova, Tarraconensis, 4 BC, 15th emission</p><p>Ref.: RPC1 171/15; SNG Copenhagen 496;</p><p>Ob.: AVGVSTVS DIVI F laureate head of Augustus r.</p><p>Rev.:&nbsp; <i>M•POSTVM•ALBIN•L•PORC•CAPIT•<b>π</b>•VIR• Q </i> Priest standing facing holding simpulum and olive branch</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]913193[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]913194[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I am still looking for the Hadrian Sestertius - some day I will be lucky <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you were able to read until this point, I really appreciate your time and patience <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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