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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 817554, member: 19463&quot;]Thanks for the kind words.&nbsp; In the time I have been &#039;in&#039; this hobby, the emphasis has really changed.&nbsp; Once, late Roman bronzes were hardly considered collectable by many people I knew.&nbsp; High enders gathered Greek silver (sometimes by die identities) and cheapskates like me collected denarii (Septimius Severus if you were really low class).&nbsp;&nbsp; My site is heavily overstrength on cheap coins.&nbsp; There may be a gold coin there but many of you would never find it unless very lucky (and it doesn&#039;t belong to me either).&nbsp; The reason my site has what it has on late Roman is my friendship with Victor Failmezger that led to my taking pictures for his book on Late Roman Bronzes that got me interested enough to buy a few of them.&nbsp; Today there are great sites on late Roman.&nbsp; I&#039;m a little sorry that mine is not one of them but what I know about the coins is mostly covered on the 20 some pages I do have.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When I started my site, my objective was to encourage the study of and have fun with ancient coins.&nbsp; Nothing makes me happier than to visit a site that was posted by someone who got the idea to do it from visiting my pages.&nbsp; When you write those 30+ pages on LRB, please send me the link so I can learn from them.&nbsp; &nbsp; I support free information exchange in both directions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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