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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2786813, member: 10461"][USER=82430]@gregarious[/USER] - I remember seeing your coin.  Those concentric striations on the reverse really caught my eye. [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] - though I'm a mere dabbler in ancients and will never match y'all's encyclopedic knowledge of die varieties, I do remember reading your article about that coin, several years ago. (Wow - you bought that during the Kennedy era - when silver still circulated!  I was born with the advent of clad coinage in 1965, which now makes me an "over the hill" fifty-something myself. I find it an interesting perspective that you've been at this so long. It is also strange to sometimes find younger collectors deferring to me, after my 40 years of numismatics.  I never specialized much.  Ten years into collecting ancients, I still consider myself a greenhorn in that arena.  Maybe not a total novice anymore, but far from seasoned.  The more I learn, the more aware I become of my own ignorance.) But I digress. I'd best go off and read TIF's tale now, like I said I would, lest I sink AA's anniversary thread beneath my blather.[/QUOTE]