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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2888353, member: 76194"]This coin took 26 days to get from London, UK, to Miami, Florida. It made it from the UK to the US in three days, then mysteriously sat at Kennedy Airport in New York for nearly a month (or disappeared to God knows where), then magically showed up today at my door with no tracking history as to how it came to end up at my house.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I opened the package I was surprised to see it. I had stopped thinking about it and had totally forgotten it by this point. I guess I just assumed it would never turn up after nearly 2 weeks in New York...so it was quite a surprise to see it here 26 days after it left the UK.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]693628[/ATTACH]<b>C. Licinius L.f. Macer</b></p><p>Rome, 84 BCE.</p><p>AR Denarius (19mm, 3.58g, 6h). Diademed bust of Vejovis l., seen from behind, hurling a thunderbolt. R/ Minerva in quadriga r., brandishing javelin and holding a shield. Crawford 354/1; RBW 1355; RSC Licinia 16. Bankers' marks on obv.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2888353, member: 76194"]This coin took 26 days to get from London, UK, to Miami, Florida. It made it from the UK to the US in three days, then mysteriously sat at Kennedy Airport in New York for nearly a month (or disappeared to God knows where), then magically showed up today at my door with no tracking history as to how it came to end up at my house. When I opened the package I was surprised to see it. I had stopped thinking about it and had totally forgotten it by this point. I guess I just assumed it would never turn up after nearly 2 weeks in New York...so it was quite a surprise to see it here 26 days after it left the UK. [ATTACH=full]693628[/ATTACH][B]C. Licinius L.f. Macer[/B] Rome, 84 BCE. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.58g, 6h). Diademed bust of Vejovis l., seen from behind, hurling a thunderbolt. R/ Minerva in quadriga r., brandishing javelin and holding a shield. Crawford 354/1; RBW 1355; RSC Licinia 16. Bankers' marks on obv.[/QUOTE]
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