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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3794517, member: 80804&quot;]<img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/Redactor/Xmas1957.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Christmas, 1957, my somewhat disreputable (but fun and loving) Weird Uncle Lester gave me this group of five &quot;Roman&quot; coins (only one is an official Roman Imperial piece) :</p><p>Philip I and Tacitus Alexandria potin tetradrachms, posthumous dupondius of Faustina Sr., and Tetricus I &amp; II Gallic Empire antoniniani.</p><p>I had some fun with them during my &quot;tween&quot; years - when several of us neighborhood kid/collectors got together and got to comparing collections. I &quot;won&quot; our ad-hoc contest for &quot;who&#039;s got the oldest coin(s)?&quot; too many times until my friends refused to consider my ancients eligible any longer.</p><p>Soon, though, I became a teenager who was, of course, way too cool to collect coins.</p><p>That lasted until my early 20&#039;s in the early &#039;70&#039;s when, having gone back to accumulating US and modern World material, in a mixed &quot;cigar box lot&quot; I&#039;d bought, this piece turned up:</p><p><img src="http://old.stoa.org/albums/Redactor/58_Cpls_TRE_b_sized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album165/58_Cpls_TRE_b?full=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album165/58_Cpls_TRE_b?full=1" rel="nofollow">http://old.stoa.org/gallery/album165/58_Cpls_TRE_b?full=1</a>&nbsp; </p><p>And I said: &quot;Aha! - I know what this is (sorta...)&quot;. Taking it in to the local coin shop in hope of finding a somewhat tighter ID than &quot;Roman&quot;, I got a recommendation to acquire a copy of David Sear&#039;s &quot;Roman Coins and Their Values&quot;. It wasn&#039;t long at all until I had changed my focus almost totally to ancients - and so it began, and I&#039;ve hardly looked back since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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