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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob L., post: 2634672, member: 56976&quot;]Nate, thank you for this thread.&nbsp; I will be attending the visitation on Monday after work.&nbsp; Dave was only 41 years old.&nbsp; Just tragic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along with my fellow members of the St. Louis Ancient Coin Study Group, I have been reeling since we received word of our leader&#039;s passing on Wednesday.&nbsp; We had our last meeting with Dave only a week ago. Dave was a gentle giant, quiet, funny, and kind.&nbsp; And, where coins and history are concerned, absolutely brilliant.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a transplant to St. Louis (my wife and I moved here in 2000), I felt a bit like a fish out of water.&nbsp; I knew practically no one beyond my coworkers and students, and given that this was really before online forums like CT took off, I thought I was really isolated as far as my passion for ancient coins was concerned.&nbsp; I was delighted to learn of the ACSG that Dave led, and it was he who introduced me to the group - this must have been around 2003 or thereabouts.&nbsp; I have attended meetings ever since - every single one of those meetings being organized by Dave.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every serious Parthian collector must have a copy of David Sellwood&#039;s &quot;The Coinage of Parthia.&quot;&nbsp; It was Dave who sold me my copy, which had been his before.&nbsp; As important as that book has been to me since that transaction, it has acquired more importance this week since it used to belong to my now departed friend.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was Dave who got me interested in Kushans, after one of his many spectacular lectures and show-and-tells.&nbsp; It was Dave who provided me with the most memorable coin-related moment of my life: Dave went to school for art history at Washington University in St. Louis some years ago.&nbsp; While he was a student there he was responsible for documenting the coins from the John Max Wulfing Collection...consisting of about 14,000 ancient coins, all in spectacular shape.&nbsp; Dave was kind enough to give me a private viewing of that collection.&nbsp; It was an amazing experience that I will never forget - both because of the remarkable coins, but also because of Dave&#039;s thoughtfulness.</p><p><br /></p><p>My ex-Dave Murrey-collection copy of Sellwood, below.&nbsp; No eye candy in the coins below it.&nbsp; But they are special since they were purchased from my friend.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]580335[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]580336[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]580337[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]580339[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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