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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3267742, member: 10461&quot;]Io Saturnalia, one and all!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s time to reveal my loot.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861158[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My Secret Saturn, it turns out, is a fellow Georgian, though he&#039;s up in the northern part of the state and I&#039;m down in the southeast, near Florida.</p><p><br /></p><p>He of course included a nice note.&nbsp; He signed it with his real-world name.&nbsp; I have since deduced his forum identity with a little sleuthing, so there will be a thank-you PM on the way after I post this, but I&#039;ve cropped his name out of this photo of the note to protect his privacy, so he&#039;s got the option of revealing himself or not, as he prefers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861159[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was a biggish bronze Greek coin of Hieron II, which is my first larger Greek bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked it up on FORVM, since it came in one of their flips.&nbsp; There was also a smaller old collection ticket inside the FORVM flip.&nbsp; I&#039;ll borrow their photo, since it&#039;s better than anything I can produce.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861160[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One reason I looked it up on FORVM was because I got absolute <i>sticker shock </i>when I saw the price on the flip!&nbsp; I think that surely must have been a typo, because I certainly do not want to think my donor spent that kind of money on me!</p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=18&amp;zpg=81524" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=18&amp;zpg=81524" rel="nofollow">original listing page</a> does not shed any light on that, but hopefully it was just an error on FORVM&#039;s part.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(<b>Edit</b>- I checked with Joe Sermarini at FORVM and the $290 price on the flip was indeed an error, but my Secret Saturn was still a bit too generous.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861168[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There was also a wonderful old German postcard which quite aptly shows a scene of the Roman amphitheater ruins at Syracuse.&nbsp; My Secret Saturn must have done his homework, because the one non-numismatic sideline I have begun to dabble in lately is vintage postcards.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is probably a century old in its own right, and while the coin might or might not end up in my main collection (I&#039;m delighted to have it, regardless), the postcard is definitely a keeper and has duly been added to my new (still tiny) collection of <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/qdBU8d7H7Eckdu8ZGurx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/qdBU8d7H7Eckdu8ZGurx" rel="nofollow">vintage postcards</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]861163[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]861164[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you kindly for your thoughtfulness, dear Secret Saturn.&nbsp; It was a very fun package to receive. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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