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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2465630, member: 19463&quot;]JA is attending a coin show in Baltimore which I am skipping but I&#039;m taking the opportunity to catch up by reporting Greek coins I bought at a coin show in New Carrolton, Maryland, that played a big part in my collecting.&nbsp; It was my first coin show.&nbsp; Before that I bought by mail from lists and in person at shops but had never before been to a show. It turned out to be my favorite way to buy coins.&nbsp; Before that day, I had very few Greek coins.&nbsp; The year was 1987. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]517644[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Achaean League (Elis) hemidrachm appealed to me because it was Greek, cheap ($15) and had a nice beard on Zeus.&nbsp; I was still active duty Army at the time so I did not have a beard but retired a year later and changed that.&nbsp; When I first cataloged my collection in 1988, this was the first Greek so it got number 0001 even though I had several (mostly Roman) coins before I got it.&nbsp; I did not record the dealer&#039;s name.&nbsp; The show had several very unimpressive displays with sellers lacking signs and not giving printed receipts so I may never have known.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517633[/ATTACH]</p><p>First was an Alexander drachm with Ephesis bee under the throne.&nbsp; It came from Colosseum Coin Exchange which was for a period in the 80&#039;s one of my better sources for low end coins.&nbsp; I paid too much. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517637[/ATTACH]</p><p>Next is one of my first &#039;expensive&#039; coins.&nbsp; The seller was Charles H. Wolfe who was never cheap but from whom I never bought a coin that I do not still cherish to this day.&nbsp; Buying from him always came with a lesson in numismatics worth as much as the coin.&nbsp; Leukas was a colony of Corinth identifiable by the lambda under Pegasus but I&#039;m sure a lot of the appeal of this coin was the lion head minor type on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517642[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Parthian tetradrachm is a bit of a dog but was my first large silver Parthian and was cheap ($19) so I bought it from a dealer embarassed to have so poor a coin, I suspect. The ruler was &#039;unknown king&#039; at the time later believed to be Orodes I (I do not know the current scholarship on this). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517643[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Carthage AE16 is still my best from that city.&nbsp; I paid too much for the day but this one has been a joy to own. </p><p><br /></p><p>There were a couple other coins from that day of getting carried away (kid in a sandbox mode!) but those have been &#039;upgraded&#039;.&nbsp; One, a Sikyon, now belongs to someone I trust is reading this.&nbsp; It came from Colosseum but I have no idea who else has owned it.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is my coin show report.&nbsp; I encourage JA and any of the rest of you to do better in being timely reporting of what you find at Baltimore.&nbsp;&nbsp; I took 29 years so that is not a lot to ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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