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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 5303650, member: 10461&quot;][USER=21445]@Mat[/USER], you remember my first (and let’s hope <i>only</i>) experience with bronze disease, in what I ruefully refer to as “The Curse of the Two Caligulas”.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love that Domitian with the eagle, BTW.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- if the likes of Curtis Clay wanted that Mount Argaeus piece, I am suitably impressed.&nbsp; I suppose I resemble that remark about “condition snobs”.&nbsp; I reckon I am one.&nbsp; Because while I’m not a big-budget collector by any means, condition and eye appeal are paramount to me, since I lack the scholarly credentials most of y’all have.&nbsp; And thus I usually have only the vaguest notions about rarity and varieties and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m a “magpie” collector.&nbsp; If it’s pretty, I go for it, and usually do the learning later.&nbsp; Condition, eye appeal, and style are the things I pick up on.&nbsp; In the more specialized stuff, I’m way out of my depth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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