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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8184713, member: 57495"]When I visited Rome, I brought the Augustus As below on a 6000 mile return trip to its home city and tossed it into the Trevi Fountain. According to the <a href="https://www.italylogue.com/things-to-do/trevi-fountain-history-legend.html#coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.italylogue.com/things-to-do/trevi-fountain-history-legend.html#coins" rel="nofollow">rules</a>, I am thus promised my own return trip to Rome one of these days. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431548[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I later bought a Trajan Circus Maximus sestertius because of the fond memories a rare relaxed moment spent looking out over where it once stood. I remember it to be an otherwise busy and somewhat stressful holiday! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431549[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another moment of the trip that I'd like to commemorate with a coin purchase one day is when the wife and I had to anxiously hunt around for a secluded spot in the upper levels of the Colosseum to let her nurse our bawling child. Might take awhile to get <i>that</i> coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8184713, member: 57495"]When I visited Rome, I brought the Augustus As below on a 6000 mile return trip to its home city and tossed it into the Trevi Fountain. According to the [URL='https://www.italylogue.com/things-to-do/trevi-fountain-history-legend.html#coins']rules[/URL], I am thus promised my own return trip to Rome one of these days. :) [ATTACH=full]1431548[/ATTACH] I later bought a Trajan Circus Maximus sestertius because of the fond memories a rare relaxed moment spent looking out over where it once stood. I remember it to be an otherwise busy and somewhat stressful holiday! [ATTACH=full]1431549[/ATTACH] Another moment of the trip that I'd like to commemorate with a coin purchase one day is when the wife and I had to anxiously hunt around for a secluded spot in the upper levels of the Colosseum to let her nurse our bawling child. Might take awhile to get [I]that[/I] coin. :D[/QUOTE]
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