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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Archeocultura, post: 4552586, member: 97204&quot;]Archeocultura is in fact the name of my enterprise as an archaeologist and as a person understanding landscapes. In Holland, where I was born and bred, nearly all the land was shaped by men since prehistoric times; so land(scape) and archaeology go hand in hand. This has not always been my profession, but my passion since childhood. My father was a teacher and I followed in his footsteps and remained there for 38 years. By then I had my gut full of the modern way of educating and started my own business. In 1973 I married Frances, whom I had known since kindergarten&nbsp; and we had two children; my son still a bachelor at 40 and my daughter (36) mother of my two grandsons. Unfortunately Frances died last year and I now live with my black Labrador Raffles.</p><p>In the early sixties the old silver coins were disappearing from the currency and I started a rescue operation with the aid of the baker and the milkman who always had a lot of small change in their big leather pouches. When I started to earn money of my own, I extended to older Dutch coins, going back to the founding of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in 1578.</p><p>In 1974 I decided to sell the lot and bought my first thirty Roman coins. I bought them randomly and at a certain moment decided that it woiuld be fun to own a coin from each emperor that had ever lived. Then I wanted every denomination of each emperor and not much later I concluded that my funds would never suffice to reach that goal. Since then I specialize in coins of Antoninus Pius and family and of coins minted in Arles, France, from the moment the mint was moved there from Ostia (313 AD). The death of Constantine 24 years thereafter marks the terminus ad quem of my collection. My pius collection encompasses more than a thousand pieces and is far from complete and the copper coins of Arles still give me a lot of choice in their endless&nbsp; small varieties.</p><p>As an archaeologist I study prehistoric indigenous pottery and as I am one of a handfull of experts in the field, I am always sorting out, cataloguing, drawing and writing. In Holland we have a saying:&quot;Scherven brengen geluk&quot; which means &#039; Sherds bring luck&#039;&nbsp; and I can&#039;t disagree.</p><p><br /></p><p>The picture is my Pius number one (one as in: first)[ATTACH=full]1127229[/ATTACH]</p><p>Frans Diederik[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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