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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7638270, member: 91461&quot;]Pure class [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER]! Thank you so much for all your insight and additions to this forum. </p><p>What a poorly timed great thread to come up as all my books are in boxes.... I&#039;m moving<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Not that my collection is anything like your sweet gathering of old spines, but I do have a pretty sweet 1,800s version of the Iliad. And some really old issues of playboy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> jk. But I bet if I did they&#039;d be worth more than some of my favorite ancient coins<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie87" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Now, I understand folks that say, hey I can look everything up online. Why buy books? I&#039;m cheap too. I get it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>However, what some may be missing, much like holding ancient coins in our grubby little fingers, holding and reading a wonderfully preserved historic book can make you feel like YOU WERE Napoléon, Caesar or even Alexander the GREAT<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Again, hats off and until I can get to my books, here&#039;s a blind guy writing/reading a book:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1313686[/ATTACH] </p><p>Ionia, Smyrna. Circa 125-115 BC. Æ 20mm (21mm, 8.27g). Phanokrates, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo right / The poet Homer seated left, holding scroll. Milne, Autonomous 194a; SNG Copenhagen. Former Kairos Numismatik[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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