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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbreeze, post: 24822526, member: 86726&quot;]So, I’m on the sidelines right now from any shows so I thought I’d relay a funny/quirky story that I laugh about every now and then from a show a few years ago.&nbsp; The story involves this particular type of coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589226[/ATTACH]</p><p>CNG auction picture from a while back.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I am at a show many years back and this type of coin was presented to me as something I might like by a dealer who knows what I buy and what I like.&nbsp; He hands me the coin and says it’s a popular type and it has a soldier on the back carrying a “dog”s head…that is what I heard.&nbsp; Well, I almost immediately was struck by the fact that it was a popular type and that he thought I was the type of collector who wanted a coin with a Roman soldier waving a “dog”s head around.&nbsp; What a terrible way to immortalize this inhumane act by presenting it on a coin.&nbsp; Who would want that coin?&nbsp; So, I really don’t even want to look at it, but I take the coin in hand and read the tag.&nbsp; The reverse description is as such…a soldier carrying a GAUL’s head.&nbsp; Within a second of reading that, I turn to the dealer and said, I’ll take it, I can see why it is popular.&nbsp; Who doesn’t want that coin?&nbsp; Transaction completed, I start walking to the next table with my awesome new purchase.&nbsp; Then, it hits me.&nbsp; What is the matter with me?&nbsp; When I thought it was a dog’s head, I didn’t even want to look at it.&nbsp; When I learned it was a Gaul’s head, I couldn’t pay fast enough.&nbsp; I tend to laugh at myself a lot, but every time I see this type, I chuckle.&nbsp; Whether it is the offense I felt or the relief when I could purchase the coin because it was a human head and not a dog’s head, I really consider both the comic and conflicting nature of being a human.&nbsp; Well, the answer to my existential crisis came pretty easy, I love the coin and the design, too bad it makes me a bad human.</p><p><br /></p><p>please add any stories or funny things that happened in your collecting life[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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