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Message:: [QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 24583806, member: 128351"]Too good... Collecting ancient coins is a secret and somehow shameful perversion. Imagine that, ladies : your nice husband you've been married with for 40 years has always been hiding from you his terrible secret: he liked... old... (wait what?) coins!  He was what profilers call a... "numismatist"! Pretending he had to work late in his office, he switched his browser to private and surfed on ebay or vcoins or even bidded on online auctions. Of course you sometimes noticed bizarre expenses on your bank records, but it did not alarm you: you thought a successful man like him probably had some young mistress, men will be men, mid-life crisis you know... I have been collecting coins when I was younger, but I quit many years ago. I had seen too many people sink into depression, sometimes commit the irreparable when they realized their Didius Julianus was fake or their Athenian tetradrachm an imitative issue. I remember my first meeting at Coin Collectors Anonymous. "Hi, I'm Gino" - "Hello Gino!" they said - "Today, I haven't bought a single coin for a month!" - "Bravo, Gino! Let's celebrate! Has everybody brought his own booze?" and we had such a good time... Of course I had to call a taxi to come home, but I was feeling so liberated from my shameful addiction![/QUOTE]