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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3226160, member: 88829&quot;]Back in the 80s I was a graduate student and my wife was doing childcare to support us.&nbsp; Not a lot of income.&nbsp; I had earlier assembled a nice run of Roman Republican silver, and had enough material to do a display I called 7 centuries of Roman Silver.&nbsp; It started with the inception of the denarius and ended with a few siliquae. I had been encouraged by the director of the school library and a couple of professors to work it up as a public display, and worked on it for a few months to prepare an exhibition guidebook.&nbsp; Twenty some pages in mockup draft and a couple of hundred coins.&nbsp; But then they changed directors and his successor was a woman who adamantly refused to allow for such an exhibit.&nbsp; Remembering her father she considered collecting to be a male ego thing and not to be supported.&nbsp; She wouldn&#039;t even look at the historical guidebook I had prepared.&nbsp; I was duly deflated and demoralized.</p><p><br /></p><p>About this time we hit a rough patch, incomewise, so I took the Roman Republican component of the exhibit and consigned it to CNG.&nbsp; All but a few pieces sold, and the bills got paid.&nbsp; I still have those few pieces and all my reference books, but to this day I have no heart for Roman Republican.&nbsp;&nbsp; Ironically, the replacement director had a nervous breakdown a couple of years later and was let go.&nbsp; She apologized for how she had treated me, but by then it was <i>fait accompli</i>.&nbsp; There were no more exhibits at the library by anyone after that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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