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<p>[QUOTE="Aethelred, post: 2764072, member: 81808"]The coin below was a gift from my grandfather in about 1987. Both my grandparents were very enthusiastic supporters of my interest in numismatics when I was young. I can remember going over to their house on Sundays when I was just a kid (think late 70s to early 80s), my grandfather and I would look up coins in his Krause catalog, and do a little fishing while my grandmother cooked the most amazing breakfast. By the mid 80s I had become interested in ancients, from time to time one or the other of them would ask me to show them which coin I liked in the latest printed catalog that I had received in the mail, this is one of those coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, C. Claudius Pulcher, AR Denarius 110-109 BC, SR-177</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.wnccoins.com/VM%20Republican%20110%20Obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.wnccoins.com/VM%20Republican%20110%20rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aethelred, post: 2764072, member: 81808"]The coin below was a gift from my grandfather in about 1987. Both my grandparents were very enthusiastic supporters of my interest in numismatics when I was young. I can remember going over to their house on Sundays when I was just a kid (think late 70s to early 80s), my grandfather and I would look up coins in his Krause catalog, and do a little fishing while my grandmother cooked the most amazing breakfast. By the mid 80s I had become interested in ancients, from time to time one or the other of them would ask me to show them which coin I liked in the latest printed catalog that I had received in the mail, this is one of those coins: Roman Republic, C. Claudius Pulcher, AR Denarius 110-109 BC, SR-177 [IMG]http://www.wnccoins.com/VM%20Republican%20110%20Obv.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.wnccoins.com/VM%20Republican%20110%20rev.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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