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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 4474583, member: 80804&quot;]Thanks. I have never considered myself a particularly serious Byzantine collector - it&#039;s one of several &quot;satellite&quot; collections I consider to be nominally &quot;active&quot;, in that I will acquire pieces if the chance presents itself, but I&#039;m not aggressively pursuing anything. It&#039;s more of a passive phase of acquisition. But I have been moderately successful picking-up items here and there over the course of 60 years or so of collecting. They add up after a while <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Sort of like the way your sink will eventually fill (and maybe overflow) if a faucet is dripping. Depending on the length of the time-frame involved, even a small drip will eventually fill a bathtub.</p><p>Feel free to look around the rest of my gallery site if you wish. There are a couple thousand photos, although some sections are long overdue for a thorough update. LRB&#039;s are one area in which I have had very good luck &quot;filling holes&quot; for representative specimens of various types over the last 10 or so years since I originally put the site up, but I am lagging way behind in the recording area. </p><p>This is, I believe, the first Byzantine coin I ever acquired, ca. 1975:</p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/album130/15_Justinian_I.sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album130/15_Justinian_I?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album130/15_Justinian_I?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album130/15_Justinian_I?full=1</a>&nbsp; </p><p>It&#039;s not all that great of a coincidence that it&nbsp; happens to be Justinian, the &quot;Constantine of the Byzantines&quot;, you might say - very prolific coiner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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