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<p>[QUOTE="ab initio, post: 3256945, member: 80317"]It is a long story…</p><p><br /></p><p>It starts in Zurich in the early 80’s where I visit a well-known firm of ancient coin dealers and auctioneers. They show me a coin of my collecting areas from a recently discovered hoard in the Levant. It is a unique, unpublished didrachm of a mint that I collect meticulously. The asking price is unrealistically high and to twist the knife in the wound they ask me to throw in the deal a complete set of the JIAN, beautifully bound in half French Morocco, that they know is a duplicate in my library. How can I refuse?</p><p><br /></p><p>My next stop is Paris. I visit a well-known American dealer residing there who later became famous over an antiquity controversy. He produces out of his desk drawer the “Big Brother” of the coin that I just bought. It is the (huge, spread flan) unique tetradrachm of the same series and he is asking three times the price of the smaller coin. I do not have the cash readily available as my money is tied up in investment funds so I say “no thank you”. He looks surprised and we part amicably. A few years later, over a bottle of good French wine (he always called the wine served at coin shows “horse piss”) he asked me why, and when I told him he said I was a fool, he would give me all the time I wanted to pay. The coin has appeared at auction twice since that time and now resides in a Bank collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ab initio, post: 3256945, member: 80317"]It is a long story… It starts in Zurich in the early 80’s where I visit a well-known firm of ancient coin dealers and auctioneers. They show me a coin of my collecting areas from a recently discovered hoard in the Levant. It is a unique, unpublished didrachm of a mint that I collect meticulously. The asking price is unrealistically high and to twist the knife in the wound they ask me to throw in the deal a complete set of the JIAN, beautifully bound in half French Morocco, that they know is a duplicate in my library. How can I refuse? My next stop is Paris. I visit a well-known American dealer residing there who later became famous over an antiquity controversy. He produces out of his desk drawer the “Big Brother” of the coin that I just bought. It is the (huge, spread flan) unique tetradrachm of the same series and he is asking three times the price of the smaller coin. I do not have the cash readily available as my money is tied up in investment funds so I say “no thank you”. He looks surprised and we part amicably. A few years later, over a bottle of good French wine (he always called the wine served at coin shows “horse piss”) he asked me why, and when I told him he said I was a fool, he would give me all the time I wanted to pay. The coin has appeared at auction twice since that time and now resides in a Bank collection.[/QUOTE]
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