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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7864662, member: 91461&quot;]Awww shucks! Thanks for buddy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>That is AWESOME!!! That picture is BEAuuuuutiful! And I LOVE old books. Though have only a few. One of my favorites being my old &quot;Pocket Classic&quot; Iliad:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1355051[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Having been compelled to share a Pic of the book, I checked how old it was<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... and wouldn&#039;t you know it, IT&#039;S ALSO FROM 1909<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1355052[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Talk about coin-instances<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wacky:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>As to the request I do have a shabby coin of Aeneas (whose name I cannot help but chuckle about,&nbsp; whenever I try to say it comes out anus eus)</p><p>That was my first Roman coin, given to me by my dad!</p><p>I wonder if he was trying to give me a sign about he wanted to be treated in his old age (Aeneas is carrying his old man away from the destroyed city):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1355059[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julius Caesar</p><p>Denarius fouree, Africa, 47-46 BCE. AR 2.8 g. 18mm, Diademed head of Venus r. Rev. CAESAR Aeneas running l., carrying his father Anchises on his l. shoulder, holding palladium on his outstretched r. hand. This coin represents Caesar’s war coinage for the protracted campaign against the Pompians in Africa culminating in the battle of Thapsus.Cr. 458/1. Syd. 1013.</p><p><br /></p><p>What a good guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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