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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2866778, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;m sure we know some of the same people.&nbsp; The first shows I did were NCNA shows in Raleigh around the millennium.&nbsp; I lived much of my former pre-millennial existence in Asheville, where my my mother&#039;s people were from.&nbsp; Still have an aunt left there.&nbsp; (And an ex-wife.&nbsp; My son moved to Chicago.) </p><p><br /></p><p>I still get up there once a year to <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-ancient-coin-collectors-in-their-element.288853/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-ancient-coin-collectors-in-their-element.288853/">visit</a>.&nbsp; My good friend Michael Swoveland ([USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER]) just informed me today that he will very soon be opening his own brick-and-mortar coin shop in the Asheville area, which is probably why he has been so scarce on the Ancients forum lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Note his username.&nbsp; Now note the OP of this thread, and the presence in MY collection of HIS onetime namesake, &quot;signature&quot; coin.&nbsp; Took me 19 years to wrest that one from his grasp, and I gave up several nice ancients to get it!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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