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<p>[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3253705, member: 91240"]Entry Post! </p><p><br /></p><p>I also recently crossed the one year mark, though it hardly seems like it. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to be a member of such an active, welcoming and generous board. I can’t express what a great community this is, and how nice it is to be comfortable asking just about any coin related queastion imaginable and expect friendly, well informed responses, or to just share a new acquisiton with other people who will be interested (or admire what they have to share). So thanks to everyone who makes it what it is, whether they’ve been here a long time or are relative newcomers like [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] and I. </p><p><br /></p><p>The hardest part of doing this is, for me at least, picking just a <i>few </i>favorites from my collection. And that’s only counting the ones somehow related to Cointalk (or Cyprus)! My ‘favorite’ coins are always in flux depending on my current fancy. I’ve also been lucky enough to acquire some beautiful coins from my fellow CT members. I honestly can’t say that one is better than another, so the order I list them in really has no meaning! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s a beautiful as of Augustus and Agrippa from Nemausus that I got from [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER] and shared on another thread recently: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]854404[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And here is a beautiful Domitian drachm from Alexandria that I got from [USER=76544]@Brian Bucklan[/USER], a nice addition to my collection of Alexandrian animals: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]854405[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And lastly, since we are discussing Cyprus, here is the only coin I have from Cyprus, a tiny bronze of Augustus showing the temple of Aphrodite at Paphos, which is rough, shiny, and hard to capture: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]854406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3253705, member: 91240"]Entry Post! I also recently crossed the one year mark, though it hardly seems like it. I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to be a member of such an active, welcoming and generous board. I can’t express what a great community this is, and how nice it is to be comfortable asking just about any coin related queastion imaginable and expect friendly, well informed responses, or to just share a new acquisiton with other people who will be interested (or admire what they have to share). So thanks to everyone who makes it what it is, whether they’ve been here a long time or are relative newcomers like [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] and I. The hardest part of doing this is, for me at least, picking just a [I]few [/I]favorites from my collection. And that’s only counting the ones somehow related to Cointalk (or Cyprus)! My ‘favorite’ coins are always in flux depending on my current fancy. I’ve also been lucky enough to acquire some beautiful coins from my fellow CT members. I honestly can’t say that one is better than another, so the order I list them in really has no meaning! Here’s a beautiful as of Augustus and Agrippa from Nemausus that I got from [USER=83956]@Gavin Richardson[/USER] and shared on another thread recently: [ATTACH=full]854404[/ATTACH] And here is a beautiful Domitian drachm from Alexandria that I got from [USER=76544]@Brian Bucklan[/USER], a nice addition to my collection of Alexandrian animals: [ATTACH=full]854405[/ATTACH] And lastly, since we are discussing Cyprus, here is the only coin I have from Cyprus, a tiny bronze of Augustus showing the temple of Aphrodite at Paphos, which is rough, shiny, and hard to capture: [ATTACH=full]854406[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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