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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2203410, member: 19463&quot;]New Castle in the East Central part of Indiana but I have not lived here since 1968.&nbsp; I was graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville just in time for the draft board to end my dream of being a professor of Ancient History so the coins became my focus as what the British call &#039;Portable Antiquities&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Internet has really changed the hobby.&nbsp; When I was young, I knew no one closer than 50 miles who cared about ancients.&nbsp; It is little better now but Steve in Canada and Martin in the UK are just as close as my neighbor whose hobby is mowing his lawn. I wonder today how many people unknown to me in New Castle have had ancients over the last 50 years.&nbsp; I have been here a few times a year for the last 46 visiting my now 101 year old Mother-in-Law but it is easier to make connections with collectors physically thousands of miles away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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