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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3242324, member: 93416&quot;]Thanks for this sad news, and the link.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can confirm what Nick Mayhew writes about Michael Metcalf’s generosity. One time I sent him a an early version of my most radical piece of writing (Gyges Magic Ring). He must have read it all carefully – since he quickly replied giving me an even more ancient source for a Persian political position than the one I had cited (and it was cited towards the very end of my text!) He treated arguments with the respect objectivity demands, and people generously with his time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess the 1966 episode Nick Mayhew refers to was a clash between Metcalf and Grieson? Grierson had intellectual roots way back in the Cambridge of the 1930’s. Never a communist, but rather “a friend of Russia”. The younger man, Metcalf,&nbsp; admired the alternative ideals of the early post WWII period, most especially those of Popper’s “Open Society”.&nbsp;&nbsp; I seem to recall he put a remembrance of Popper in one of his numismatic articles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having said that, both men treated collectors and professional academics just the same, addressing positions objectively, in a generous spirited collegiate way. Both men were collectors themselves. Michael always replied on first name basis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those days are slipping away fast now</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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