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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2449038, member: 51347&quot;]Way cool [USER=73372]@Topcat7[/USER] !&nbsp; Fun.&nbsp; I collect eclectic also, due to my travels.&nbsp; But, man, a meteorite older than the planet is VERY nice!&nbsp; Hats off to you!</p><p><br /></p><p>My first were actually 5.&nbsp; 4 Athena Tets and an Alexander III Drachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased them from a friend back in the early &#039;90&#039;s who owned a Stained Glass Shop with a few ancients in his cabinet.&nbsp; We talked a lot about ancient histories, and came to learn he had a very extensive collection of ancients.&nbsp; He was about my age, and had been collecting for years.&nbsp; He let me buy these, and several others for a &quot;song&quot;, because of our friendship.&nbsp; Sad to say, he passed a couple years later from a very painful and debilitating bone disease.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511710[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]511711[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]511712[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]511713[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]511714[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They aren&#039;t &quot;super&quot; by most Ancient collectors standards, but they mean a lot to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>It helped me really understand that the coins carry an enormous amount of history, both because of its mintage and because of the wear and tear.&nbsp; The wear of people transacting them in trade and exchange... trade is the vitality of humans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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