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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8333763, member: 91461&quot;]Aww shucks<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Thanks RC and friends. That was the best, non family related, time I can recall since the Rona hit<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>(Hehe, just what I wanted him to think. Wait. Did I type that or just think it?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>Seriously, it was AWESOME getting to chat up [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] in person. If you think he&#039;s just incredibly knowledgeable online with resources at his disposal you&#039;ve got another thing coming. He has encyclopedic knowledge on areas I know he doesn&#039;t even specialize in. And if you even start to say the F word around him (Faustina) you are going to be entertained&nbsp; with facts that Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius didn&#039;t even know about the ladies<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The show was great [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] . Some sellers with only bank busting coins but then a couple more in my budget range was nice.</p><p>Getting to meet his friend and dealer Bill Rosenblum, from whom I bought two show stoppers from, was a treat. Watching them interact and tell stories was priceless. When a teenage ancient collecting Numismatist stopped by the table while we were chatting away and came across a beautiful Galerius, he asked us what we knew about the emperor, I had mentioned his involvement in Diocletian&#039;s tetrarchy.</p><p>And then RC begins explaining in EPIC and gory detail the way in which Galerius died from &quot;a severe infection of the skin and soft tissue of the pubic area called Fournier gangrene&quot;, &quot;it had occupied the lower regions of his body, his bowels came out; and his whole seat putrefied. The luckless physicians, although without hope of overcoming the malady, ceased not to apply fermentations and administer remedies. The humors having been repelled, the distemper attacked his intestines, and worms were generated in his body. The stench was so foul as to pervade not only the palace, but even the whole city; and no wonder, for by that time the passages from waste bladder and bowels, having been devoured by the worms, became indiscriminate, and his body, with intolerable anguish, was dissolved into one mass of corruption.”</p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/10406167/The_Fatal_Disease_of_Emperor_Galerius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/10406167/The_Fatal_Disease_of_Emperor_Galerius" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/10406167/The_Fatal_Disease_of_Emperor_Galerius</a></p><p>(Thanks for the article RC<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie91" alt=":stinkyfeet:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p>Needless to say, the kid excitedly bought the coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie52" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll put together an article on the two coins I bought when time allows. Currently I&#039;m busy showering my wife with affection (meaning, I&#039;m watching the kids while she relaxes like the Venus she is).</p><p>Anyways, I greatly look forward to making the trip &quot;up country&quot; again<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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