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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 2766065, member: 87200"]I joined the Forum about a month ago and have yet to make a proper introduction. I'm from Berkeley, California and have been collecting off and on for forty years (started with ancients when I was 11). Anyway, I accumulated a pretty good sized collection in my teenage years with about 50 roman emperors. I had some pretty good coins including a Marc Antony legionary denarius and one of Caesar with the elephant, and the rest of the 12 Caesars in denarii. I ended up selling that collection when I was 18 partly to fund my college expenses. Too bad, I know...</p><p><br /></p><p>But I started collecting again about 2.5 years ago buying from crustyromans.com and then cleaning and attributing coin lots, mainly LRB. So I've also got some provincial bronzes, antoniniani, folles, biblical coins and some other things. Since I'm semi-retired from the venture finance industry I'm starting to upgrade the collection with interesting stuff. So far, I have been amazed at the generosity of the forum members, even sending me free coins!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, thanks for having me and I'm really enjoying the forum so far.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 2766065, member: 87200"]I joined the Forum about a month ago and have yet to make a proper introduction. I'm from Berkeley, California and have been collecting off and on for forty years (started with ancients when I was 11). Anyway, I accumulated a pretty good sized collection in my teenage years with about 50 roman emperors. I had some pretty good coins including a Marc Antony legionary denarius and one of Caesar with the elephant, and the rest of the 12 Caesars in denarii. I ended up selling that collection when I was 18 partly to fund my college expenses. Too bad, I know... But I started collecting again about 2.5 years ago buying from crustyromans.com and then cleaning and attributing coin lots, mainly LRB. So I've also got some provincial bronzes, antoniniani, folles, biblical coins and some other things. Since I'm semi-retired from the venture finance industry I'm starting to upgrade the collection with interesting stuff. So far, I have been amazed at the generosity of the forum members, even sending me free coins!!! Anyway, thanks for having me and I'm really enjoying the forum so far.[/QUOTE]
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