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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1908155, member: 19463&quot;]It is always nice to learn something.&nbsp; Here I learned that the senior numismatist of Heritage Auctions considers Pertinax a usurper.&nbsp; I suppose we each can make up our own definitions of words as suits our fancy.&nbsp; While I enjoy seeing videos like these, I do regret that they leave the impression to those who know nothing about the hobby that ancient coins range from $60k to $140k when was all know that most of them are priceless museum specimens that should never be though of in such vile terms as cash and need to be worshiped for what they are rather than what they will bring at auction.&nbsp; Where is the vid of some kid going through the $5 bin pulling out a Gallienus and explaining how someday he hopes to be chief numismatist of the British Museum?&nbsp; They must have run out of film before they shot that one. </p><p><br /></p><p>I could say nice things about Harlan Berk for hours without mentioning his resemblance to Richard Burton but remind all that we all have our own definitions of beauty as well.&nbsp; I suspect there are some out there who would consider Mother Theresa or the heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune more beautiful than the average glamour model but they would be basing their judgments on different standards.&nbsp; From the standpoint of Caesar and Antony, beauty was defined as owning a country worth a few trillion tons of gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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