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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8142247, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks, and Back at you, on all counts. </p><p>It&#039;s funny.&nbsp; On a smaller scale, I collect much the same way as you do; what I know of the market, from one minute to the next, kind of sets the agenda.&nbsp; It&#039;s a little like classic, 20th-century vocal jazz, especially by way of the songs that they refer to as &#039;standards.&#039;&nbsp; You start with what&#039;s there, and then you riff on it.</p><p>..I <i>want </i>to think that the overwhelming majority of Axumite coins were minted in the eponymous, capital city.&nbsp; ...Except that, from the Sasanian and Islamic conquests of most of the Aksumite Red Sea coast, in the 7th century (following the massive plague in the previous one), the entire administrative infrastucture was forced to migrate further inland.&nbsp; It was a national trauma, not least regarding what had to be a massive loss of previously extant written documentation.&nbsp; On this scale, you could compare it to the First World War, along with modern European conflicts to either side.&nbsp; There was a Lot of (euphemism alert: ) &quot;collateral damage.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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