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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4889859, member: 19463"]Dane is an interesting person of great value to the hobby. This interview covers how she came to be 'Wildwinds':</p><p><a href="http://www.urbanmankind.com/interview-with-dane-rowe/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.urbanmankind.com/interview-with-dane-rowe/" rel="nofollow">http://www.urbanmankind.com/interview-with-dane-rowe/</a></p><p><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JQf2SjAAZUE/T5nRrPoARgI/AAAAAAAAC68/BuGYBRSzUpI/s1600/images-2.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Roman Numismatics. How did you become an expert in ancient coins?</b></p><p><i>“When I was at school I wanted to be either a police detective or an archaeologist. I was half an inch too small to join the police, although I had been a police cadet (a voluntary organisation at the time for teenagers) and there was nowhere in my area where I could study archaeology, although one far-sighted locum teacher once took some of us on a field trip to Lancaster (NW England) and we visited an archaeological dig. Later, with the advent of metal detectors and the internet I was able to buy a small group of Roman coins from a German dealer and my old love of history and archaeology was re-awakened. I started collecting coins and numismatic books and fortunately I am a quick learner and it all went from there. I used to send images and information with the correct references to my friend Dave Surber from California, who founded the <a href="http://wildwinds.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/" rel="nofollow">wildwinds.com</a> website and he would add them to the wildwinds database. Some dealers started sending me images for wildwinds. Then Dave tragically died in February 2009 and although some people thought I was the right person to continue, I didn’t have the money for the server costs. Fortunately at that time, an experienced English antiquities and coin company, Timeline Originals, for whom I had been identifying ancient coins for several years, stepped in and offered to buy wildwinds from Dave’s widow and have me look after the job of adding coins etc. And that is what happened.”</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4889859, member: 19463"]Dane is an interesting person of great value to the hobby. This interview covers how she came to be 'Wildwinds': [URL]http://www.urbanmankind.com/interview-with-dane-rowe/[/URL] [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JQf2SjAAZUE/T5nRrPoARgI/AAAAAAAAC68/BuGYBRSzUpI/s1600/images-2.jpeg[/IMG] [B]Roman Numismatics. How did you become an expert in ancient coins?[/B] [I]“When I was at school I wanted to be either a police detective or an archaeologist. I was half an inch too small to join the police, although I had been a police cadet (a voluntary organisation at the time for teenagers) and there was nowhere in my area where I could study archaeology, although one far-sighted locum teacher once took some of us on a field trip to Lancaster (NW England) and we visited an archaeological dig. Later, with the advent of metal detectors and the internet I was able to buy a small group of Roman coins from a German dealer and my old love of history and archaeology was re-awakened. I started collecting coins and numismatic books and fortunately I am a quick learner and it all went from there. I used to send images and information with the correct references to my friend Dave Surber from California, who founded the [URL='http://wildwinds.com/']wildwinds.com[/URL] website and he would add them to the wildwinds database. Some dealers started sending me images for wildwinds. Then Dave tragically died in February 2009 and although some people thought I was the right person to continue, I didn’t have the money for the server costs. Fortunately at that time, an experienced English antiquities and coin company, Timeline Originals, for whom I had been identifying ancient coins for several years, stepped in and offered to buy wildwinds from Dave’s widow and have me look after the job of adding coins etc. And that is what happened.”[/I][/QUOTE]
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