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Message:: [QUOTE="Dafydd, post: 2712870, member: 86815"]I was aged nine and was in a hospital bed in 1965 as I was having my tonsils removed ( very popular in the 60's!). The man in the next bed gave me several Seaby catalogues and I was interested. A week later an envelope arrived at home with two Republican Denerii with a note "hope you are well and imagine that someone held these coins 2000 years ago!" I had no real opportunity to collect ancients but started sorting coins out in my change and collected British milled coinage for years. Sadly the two ancients were lost in house moves or given away. Over the next 51 years I had an "on off" relationship with coins, very intense for a couple of years with pattern shillings, then traded the collection for military medals and then in early 2016 did a trade for some ancients and later that week picked up a novel set in ancient times and had an "Eureka" moment in which I realised I could never exhaust this subject to the end of my days. I was infatuated with the British Admiral Horatio Nelson for 20 years but completely satiated my appetite as I visited every historical site, read every book and even tried drinking in every Nelson Arms in the UK but eventually burnt out on the subject. Given the diversity of this subject I can't see that happening, you only need to glance through this forum to see that![/QUOTE]