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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3242507, member: 96864&quot;][USER=77226]@Orange Julius[/USER] Your Justinian looks like a year 32 to my eye, with the II at the bottom spaced to match the general width of the column above.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried putting mine in organized flips, but couldn&#039;t stand the unnatural separation so right now I&#039;ve got a few glorious disorganized piles of treasure; silvers, then usually separate Roman, Greek, and Byzantine bronze piles. Makes it a treasure-hunt every time I look through the piles, plus it encourages remembering on-sight at least the basic attribution information. Coins (and artifacts) were made to be handled and that&#039;s precisely what I do. At this stage in life I can&#039;t imagine paying the ballooning premiums for minty coins and would much rather have 10 times the variety in attractive circulated coins than one that I can&#039;t even touch in fear of rubbing-off half the value. Not to knock different personality types and your natural preferences or investment strategies, but I&#039;ve always been very hands-on and intuitive in my learning process, and never cared for the very frequent admonishments in my youth to &quot;touch with your eyes; not with your hands.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a pic of the table next to my computer from about 6 months ago. I wasn&#039;t trying to pose them for a picture, just had some of my goodies spread out for handling and enjoyment and realized it would make an interesting snapshot:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]849007[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The big Ptolemaic AE Drachm nested inside the Slovakian Celtic “Érsekújvár” glass bracelet was and is a frequent victim of my handsy advances.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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