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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4849283, member: 110504"]...Oh, nnnnnnoooO. Serious condolences, DonnaML. And thank you for yours. ...And from here, especially with the lettering, that's a Good Fake!</p><p>...I have a good story about the one legionary denarius I ever had. Was at a local coin show, c. 1990 (within a couple of years, to either side); found one, unattributed, in somebody's junk box. From memory, it was worn, maybe at the expense of the number of the legion. A collector in my acquaintance was there. He said that he'd just looked at that junk box, and missed it. I said something like, 'Yeah, and I knew what it was, and you didn't.' Except, he insisted that I sell it to him, at some now-pathetic markup. ...I'd already spent a good part of the afternoon buying stuff, then selling it to collectors. According to calculations made at the time, I was making more, at an hourly rate, than I ever had (...or have since). But at a still-impressionable age, I was more subject to such rhetorical strong-arming than nowadays (...live in hope). And there it went. ...Yeah, it would be some serious poetic justice if That one was fake, but I frankly doubt it.</p><p>So, Yeah, Condolences. But congratulations on how you did with Frank Robinson.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4849283, member: 110504"]...Oh, nnnnnnoooO. Serious condolences, DonnaML. And thank you for yours. ...And from here, especially with the lettering, that's a Good Fake! ...I have a good story about the one legionary denarius I ever had. Was at a local coin show, c. 1990 (within a couple of years, to either side); found one, unattributed, in somebody's junk box. From memory, it was worn, maybe at the expense of the number of the legion. A collector in my acquaintance was there. He said that he'd just looked at that junk box, and missed it. I said something like, 'Yeah, and I knew what it was, and you didn't.' Except, he insisted that I sell it to him, at some now-pathetic markup. ...I'd already spent a good part of the afternoon buying stuff, then selling it to collectors. According to calculations made at the time, I was making more, at an hourly rate, than I ever had (...or have since). But at a still-impressionable age, I was more subject to such rhetorical strong-arming than nowadays (...live in hope). And there it went. ...Yeah, it would be some serious poetic justice if That one was fake, but I frankly doubt it. So, Yeah, Condolences. But congratulations on how you did with Frank Robinson.[/QUOTE]
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