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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4559725, member: 84744&quot;][USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]&#039;s alluding to Harl&#039;s recent visit to my neck of the woods... I actually <i>did</i> get to have beers with the guy and it was indeed outta sight, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I&#039;ve listened to his Great Courses lectures for decades and it was surreal to have that great voice addressing me in person, regaling us with stories of getting lost in the middle of rural Anatolia.&nbsp; He was incredibly generous with his time and we hung out quite a bit over the course of a couple of days, and we&#039;ve continued to correspond since.&nbsp; Right now he&#039;s working on a popular book on the people of the Steppe (he has a Great Courses series on this which is fabulous).</p><p><br /></p><p>While he was here he gave a fantastic talk on Roman coins at our local university, illustrating it with many of his own pieces.&nbsp; Like this coin for example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128782[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, I&#039;ll pick <i>that</i> one as my dream coin then!&nbsp; Though there were a dozen others that would have served just as well.&nbsp; Wowzers.</p><p><br /></p><p>My own contribution to the events was a bit of a coin exhibition that they put up in the university&#039;s archival display room.&nbsp; I was pretty pleased with it.&nbsp; I designed posters for my coins to peek through, which were taped onto the inside of the glass display cabinets so you could get within millimetres of the coins.&nbsp; (Magnifiers were made available.)&nbsp; Here are a couple of the posters in situ:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128783[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly COVID-19 shut everything down before the full exhibit was even on display, after Ken had returned to New Orleans. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (Luckily he missed the Mardi Gras coronavirus-fest because he was visiting us!)&nbsp; Hopefully it will be remounted sometime, at which point I may post about it on CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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