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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24798578, member: 128351&quot;]Fried eggs and bacon for breakfast are a major contribution of Great Britain to civilization. But just thinking of the industrial reddish sweet slime they dare to call ketchup (which was an Indian speciality in the first place) almost makes me puke. That&#039;s like those typically British wonderful and delicious bowls of mixed berries, well... delicious until somebody has the disastrous idea of pouring on it that horrendous kind of disgusting industrial sweet substance which tastes like medicine, I just don&#039;t want to remember the name they give it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1586698[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>er... Oh, yes, Alexander ! sorry...</p><p><br /></p><p>I love that coin, its wonderful portrait of Alexander in a style typical of the Babylon mint. I think it&#039;s the test cut that made it affordable. Smart acquisition ! </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my posthumous Alexander. I bought it not in London but in some antique shop of Damascus old city, near Bab Sharqi. Memories of days gone by, when you could go to Syria, freely visit the country (the dreadful regime police annoyed only the nationals, not the western foreigners), walk the narrow streets of Damascus old city, bargain for nice ancient coins in Arabic, English or French (depended where the guy had been to school), end the afternoon at Ghraoui&#039;s who made the most orgasmic candied apples, pears, apricots I ever tasted. The true blessing was candied apricot stuffed with pistachios and all covered with black chocolate... Apricots originate from Damascus, did you know that? But the old Ghraoui retired or passed away, his son had attended some Western business school and turned his father&#039;s craft business into a prosperous company with shops in Budapest, Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Candied fruits no longer taste the same as before, too sweet IMO, but still good...</p><p><br /></p><p>Excuse me? Alexander? Oh, yes, Alexander !!!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1586699[/ATTACH]</p><p>Alexander the Great tetradrachm, Sardis, BC 319-315.</p><p>Obv.: head of Alexander/Herakles right wearing lion-skin</p><p>Rev.: ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated left holding vertical sceptre and eagle, in left field monogram Price 1256 above 8-pointed star.</p><p>Price 2664. Same obv. die as ANS 1944.100.31357[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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