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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 1904272, member: 42634&quot;]well, i enjoyed reading all these...great post and welcome ibraaheem.</p><p><br /></p><p>only started collecting in late 2011, i&#039;m currently 42.&nbsp; i went to the indianapolis museum of art that summer and saw an exhibit on on roman funerary sculptures, amongst all sorts of other cool art both new and old (bc-to current).&nbsp; but some of the roman pieces where large...and i could touch them.&nbsp; neat!</p><p><br /></p><p>sometime later i came across some roman coins on ebay.&nbsp; hey, these things aren&#039;t that expensive.&nbsp; wow.&nbsp; i&#039;ll buy one..then i can touch that roman art all i want!&nbsp; picked this up for ten bucks (picked up another couple also, one i gave to my father, one was traded to a coin bud..it was one he really wanted).&nbsp; anyway, this was my first coin..</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/1stancientagain_zps5232c86e.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/1stancientagain_zps5232c86e.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/1stancientagain_zps5232c86e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>i think if i would have got that coin in the days before the internet, that may have been it.&nbsp; but i&nbsp; found some other folks on coin forums..sharing and seeing other peoples coin really boosted my interested...and i&#039;ve been hooked since.&nbsp; ancients have branched into me dabbling with other coin types, i have a little bit of everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>i still like to touch my coins...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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