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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3790363, member: 97383"]Yesterday I stumbled on one of my early mistakes, and a very embarrassing one I might add <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! At the age of 17 (54 years ago), I just returned home from a coin show in Syracuse, NY. While browsing through one dealers stock I found a Nero Tetradrachm from Antioch, Syria, pictured below. The coin had a price of $15.00 written on the holder and I promptly put the coin aside with a smirk on my face <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The coin had been placed in an undersized Whitman cardboard holder, like the picture below the coin, so you couldn't see the edge of the coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. When I got home I quickly removed the coin from the holder and looked at the edge of the coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Instantly I realized I got duped <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The stupidity of youth struck again <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie79" alt=":rage:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Syracuse is a long drive from where I lived in Rochester at the time, and besides I was too embarrassed to drive back to that show. This is the kind of coin a tourist vacationing in Italy might buy <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012509[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012510[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012511[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3790363, member: 97383"]Yesterday I stumbled on one of my early mistakes, and a very embarrassing one I might add :shame:! At the age of 17 (54 years ago), I just returned home from a coin show in Syracuse, NY. While browsing through one dealers stock I found a Nero Tetradrachm from Antioch, Syria, pictured below. The coin had a price of $15.00 written on the holder and I promptly put the coin aside with a smirk on my face :smuggrin:. The coin had been placed in an undersized Whitman cardboard holder, like the picture below the coin, so you couldn't see the edge of the coin :confused:. When I got home I quickly removed the coin from the holder and looked at the edge of the coin :eek:. Instantly I realized I got duped :mad:. The stupidity of youth struck again :rage:. Syracuse is a long drive from where I lived in Rochester at the time, and besides I was too embarrassed to drive back to that show. This is the kind of coin a tourist vacationing in Italy might buy :p. [ATTACH=full]1012506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012509[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012510[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1012511[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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