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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topcat7, post: 2449013, member: 73372&quot;]The first &#039;Ancient&#039; I bought was a 1937 Austin 7 &#039;Ruby&#039;. It was common-place in 1965 for 30y.o. cars to be seen on our roads, because, way back then, things were built to last. (Imagine, going to the &#039;drags&#039; with 7 Hp. under the bonnet.)</p><p>What&#039;s that? &#039;Coins&#039;, not &#039;Cars&#039;. . . . . Ooops - Sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first ancient &#039;Coin&#039; I purchased was a &#039;Tiberius&#039; from 22A.D., (key date), and was &#039;found&#039; in Syria. I liked the &#039;stretch&#039; that it could have been on the tables, in the Temple, when a young &#039;upstart&#039; came in and &#039;wrecked&#039; the place. (Just joking - don&#039;t anybody get offended, please.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin fitted in with my collection of all things old from &#039;wherever&#039;, that goes back to a meteorite, that is, (porportedly), older than the earth. (I don&#039;t think that I can go much further back from then.)</p><p>This coin sits in a cabinet with my Indian artefacts, my Aboriginal artefacts, my Indus Valley artefacts, my Luristan artefacts, my Egyptian artefacts, my Megalodon tooth, my Mammoth hair, my Mosasur tooth, my Trilobyte fossil, and many, many, more items.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I wanted coins from every 100 years back, from &#039;today&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>On this journey, I came to the Greek/Roman times, and because of the nice, helpful, people I &#039;met&#039; doing this, on this forum, (I won&#039;t name you all because if I omitted to mention <u>one</u>, I would be devastated), I got stuck in the Greek/Roman period, and, in my collection, coins from this period far outweigh, (in number), coins from any other period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is that &#039;Tiberius&#039;. AE28mm., 7.5 gm., RIC I Rome 52</p><p>[ATTACH=full]511700[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What was your first (Ancient) coin purchase? When, and why?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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