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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3191604, member: 19463&quot;]I am touched that you feel you can recommend us to an old friend.&nbsp; I have heard we are nasty to newcomers and refer to ourselves as the &quot;Darkside&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, we do have a fondness for the guy who said, &quot;<i>Oderint, dum metuant.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </i>&quot;Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.&quot;&nbsp; (Caligula)&nbsp; &nbsp; Some of us believe you can&#039;t have too many roaches.&nbsp; Maybe being afraid of &#039;old coin people&#039; is the wise course.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://a-coins.blogspot.com/2011/10/most-expensive-roman-coin.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://a-coins.blogspot.com/2011/10/most-expensive-roman-coin.html" rel="nofollow">http://a-coins.blogspot.com/2011/10/most-expensive-roman-coin.html</a></p><p>I matters nothing what a coin looked like then.&nbsp; Now is everything.&nbsp; Take for example the &#039;most expensive Roman&#039; (link above) which would be worth a fraction of the $2.5 million if it were just another ordinary original mint state bauble. Some of our coins spent those many years getting better.&nbsp; I wonder what today&#039;s most cherished modern coins will look like in a few more decades/centuries/millennia when they settle in for the long haul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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