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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26022170, member: 10461&quot;]Randy and I both remarked upon the fact that we each left the show on Friday with more money (cash) than we’d had when we came in!&nbsp; That was kind of freaky, and we imagined our wives’ approval of that rare occurrence.&nbsp; Haha.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s just <i>Friday</i>, though.&nbsp; We’ve still got all day Saturday and part of Sunday to blow our gains.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Randy bought two nice Roman coins.&nbsp; He’s just starting out in that field.&nbsp; One was a nice Nero bronze I pointed out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other was a mistake.&nbsp; You see, Randy is collecting the Twelve Caesars.&nbsp; While I went out for a break, leaving him briefly unsupervised <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, he bought a Hadrian denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bad news?&nbsp; Hadrian was not one of the Twelve Caesars.&nbsp; So it doesn’t fit in his 12C collection.&nbsp; (He’d left his checklist behind and has not yet committed the list of the 12 Caesars to memory.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The good news?&nbsp; It’s an absolutely beautiful coin with a terrific portrait, which he got for a fair price.&nbsp; I’d have bought it myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>He almost traded the Hadrian back in on that Nero he bought, but Tom Wood and I told him he should keep it.&nbsp; It’s a sweet piece, and buying it “by mistake” was a fortuitous accident, if you ask me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now with that Hadrian in hand, he’ll just have to do a set of the “Five Good Emperors” in addition to the Twelve Caesars.&nbsp; And thus he shall slide ever further down that slippery slope.&nbsp; He’s a goner.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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