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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 4552280, member: 31620&quot;]My name is Martin. A member of Generation X. My handle [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] is a hail back to the place I was born, which is Carmarthen in Wales (UK). I started my working life as a software engineer and whilst there was one in the UK I worked in the Telecomms industry. I now live in Chepstow in the UK, which is within a stones throw of a range of Roman historical sites.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been collecting coins since I was a small boy but didn&#039;t really find ancients until about 20 or so years ago. I started as a bottom feeder gathering whatever I could get my hands on and trying to learn about the coins, the coinage and the history.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started to specialise within a few years on Lugdunum, Probus and the Severans. Though this didn&#039;t stop me keeping up an ecclectic set of various coins to continue with learning about areas of Ancient coinage that I know nothing about. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have since narrowed this down to the eastern coinage of Septimius Severus with much more specialisation even more narrow that that wihtin that coinage but I won;t bore you with the details are there are VERY few who would care of think me sane. I also norrowed in on Probus from Lugdunum. These form the core ofmy current collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided many years ago that the scurge of fakes was potentially going to put me off collecting and determined to learn what I could. I was a very active member on Forvm and am an admin on the Fake reports there. I am less active there than I have ever been and much more active on CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most people I know don&#039;t understand my collection and I have learned that most people on Forvm and CT don&#039;t understand it either but I don&#039;t care as it is MY collection and I collect for me and not for other people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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