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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7811936, member: 19463&quot;]I believe this is one of the main appeals of collecting ancient or medieval coins.&nbsp; People adverse to learning will probably drop out with a headache but those who relish the opportunity to buy coins that you understand even if they are not &#039;required for a set&#039; items love this hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Exactly!&nbsp; If you want it, define your &#039;set&#039; to include it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That lil&#039; fella really got around didn&#039;t he?&nbsp; It is hard to imaging a collection of the period that did not have one of these but I have no idea what a &#039;set&#039; in the mind of a specialist might include.&nbsp; Are there a dozen meaningful variations or a hundred?&nbsp; I&#039;ll never know.&nbsp; I have too many specialties already!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342246[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For those who did not know him:&nbsp; Alex Malloy was a dealer in the earlier period of my time in the hobby.&nbsp; I have a stack of his catalogs which I considered famous for poor photos on newsprint quality paper.&nbsp; He did, however, have some interesting coins so I saved the catalogs despite their &#039;problems&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Old catalog accumulations like mine are destined for the recycle bin between the postage costs and falling number of people who value such things over the online resources. I was planning on giving my junk books to someone before I am gone just to prevent their destruction but sorting them reminded me how interesting they were.&nbsp; Now that I am buying fewer old coins, perhaps I will spend more time with old paper.&nbsp; Few of you remember when we looked forward to the mail delivery in the hope there would be one or two new catalogs from someone like Alex Malloy. </p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=alex%20g.%20malloy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=alex%20g.%20malloy" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=alex g. malloy</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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