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<p>[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2293781, member: 44183"]<span style="color: #0000ff">Nice!! => wow Mentor, you had another great year (congrats)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, I think my favourite is your #4 example => Syracuse, Hiketas II, AE23 hemilitron 288-279 BC overstruck on Artemis/thunderbolt type</span></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/g00605fd2824-jpg.460079/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... very cool</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">*edit* ... I spent a sober-sec this morning re-reading your Top-10 and smiled (it is always a good time reading your coin-descriptions ... not unlike myself, you seem to pour a bit of emotional-attachment into your purchases) => yah, and therefore the reader finds himself at the humane society rather than ye ol coin-shoppe!!? ...... yah, you seem to need a real "connection" before you'll pull the trigger (ummm, or "adopt" a friendly waggy-tailed coin!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I like that about you and your coins, my friend ... none of the coins that made your list are in any jeopardy of being sold (okay sure, at some point they may be donated to "Gordon" at your local elementary school, but other than those lucky chess-club champs, nobody is gonna wrestle your new coins out of your tight-grasp!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">More coin-comments => I really like the Caracalla as well (super-cool that they're chillin' on their sides!!) ... total winner</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The "wrestlers" is always in my coin-cross-hairs, but I really want a "sweet-classic" example, so as you know => those babies blow the budget!! (it remains one of my unicorn-coins ... man, I let one of Batman's sweet examples fall through the cracks and I've never found an example quite as cool => so I'm kinda chasing that coin's ghost ... maybe in 2016?) .... oh, but I brought it up because your cool example is definitely a "total win" in the ol' wrestler category!! (congrats) ... the belly-punch is a total winner (the c/s is merely extra style-points) ... great coin</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">and my final comments are regarding your awesome 2015 Flagship example => I obviously "love" this gorgeous animal-coin (wow, yummy!!) ... funny though, because when I'm thumbing-through the auctions I often glide-by thinking these are merely brockage-errors (which are also very cool, but I already have a couple of examples) ... but this coin-type is definitely another example that I should be hunting for (older than dirt "and" they usually have very cool animal carvings)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Summary => your coins are awesome and I always love reading your coin-posts .... I can't wait to see your next coin show scores (always a great tale with a bunch of amazingly interesting examples!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><b>=> I hope that you keep bringin' it in 2016!! (Happy Holidays, brother)</b></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 2293781, member: 44183"][COLOR=#0000ff]Nice!! => wow Mentor, you had another great year (congrats) Ummm, I think my favourite is your #4 example => Syracuse, Hiketas II, AE23 hemilitron 288-279 BC overstruck on Artemis/thunderbolt type[/COLOR] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/g00605fd2824-jpg.460079/[/IMG] [COLOR=#0000ff]... very cool *edit* ... I spent a sober-sec this morning re-reading your Top-10 and smiled (it is always a good time reading your coin-descriptions ... not unlike myself, you seem to pour a bit of emotional-attachment into your purchases) => yah, and therefore the reader finds himself at the humane society rather than ye ol coin-shoppe!!? ...... yah, you seem to need a real "connection" before you'll pull the trigger (ummm, or "adopt" a friendly waggy-tailed coin!!) ;) I like that about you and your coins, my friend ... none of the coins that made your list are in any jeopardy of being sold (okay sure, at some point they may be donated to "Gordon" at your local elementary school, but other than those lucky chess-club champs, nobody is gonna wrestle your new coins out of your tight-grasp!!) More coin-comments => I really like the Caracalla as well (super-cool that they're chillin' on their sides!!) ... total winner The "wrestlers" is always in my coin-cross-hairs, but I really want a "sweet-classic" example, so as you know => those babies blow the budget!! (it remains one of my unicorn-coins ... man, I let one of Batman's sweet examples fall through the cracks and I've never found an example quite as cool => so I'm kinda chasing that coin's ghost ... maybe in 2016?) .... oh, but I brought it up because your cool example is definitely a "total win" in the ol' wrestler category!! (congrats) ... the belly-punch is a total winner (the c/s is merely extra style-points) ... great coin and my final comments are regarding your awesome 2015 Flagship example => I obviously "love" this gorgeous animal-coin (wow, yummy!!) ... funny though, because when I'm thumbing-through the auctions I often glide-by thinking these are merely brockage-errors (which are also very cool, but I already have a couple of examples) ... but this coin-type is definitely another example that I should be hunting for (older than dirt "and" they usually have very cool animal carvings) Summary => your coins are awesome and I always love reading your coin-posts .... I can't wait to see your next coin show scores (always a great tale with a bunch of amazingly interesting examples!!) [B]=> I hope that you keep bringin' it in 2016!! (Happy Holidays, brother)[/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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