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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 8064022, member: 104741&quot;]Nice additions to your collection, [USER=118780]@kirispupis[/USER] ! You&#039;re really exploring every nook and cranny of the Alexander and Diadochi saga.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have one small story, or confession really to share. Unlike your mail adventure, it doesn&#039;t have a happy ending.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m in bed, holding a Corinthian stater, (luckily a cheap fourree, not a 1000 Euro masterwork). I turn around and accidentally drop the coin. It slides between bed and wall, then drops, not on the floor, but right in the small slit between wood paneling of the wall and the floor. No worries. Just gently pry away the paneling, the coin will be rescued and all will be well. At least that&#039;s what I hoped. As it turns out, the floorboard in my house doesn&#039;t go all the way to the wall, but instead stops half an inch short of it... Underneath just a pitch-black gaping chasm between the double walls of the house&#039;s foundation... No door, no window: just an inaccessible void that has sucked in my coin. Do I need to spell the rest?</p><p><br /></p><p>I even pried away some of the paneling and went on a brave but pointless fishing expedition with a magnet on a rope. No stater. Short of breaking down a part of the load-bearing wall of the house I can&#039;t think of a way to ever retrieve the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that&#039;s the sad and embarrassing story of my fourree stater, now (probably forever) lost in the foundations of my house. I don&#039;t think NGC could have done a better job in entombing it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1397915[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To end the story on a bright note: at least we can now begin to glimpse the<i><b> real</b></i> story behind how those Phanes staters ended up under the foundations of the Artemis temple in Ephesos...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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