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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2969544, member: 82322&quot;]Most people don’t collect anything.&nbsp; If they do collect, it is probably something I don’t know how to appreciate, like autographed baseballs or Japanese pressings of prog-rock LPs.&nbsp; If they collect coins they probably want to tell me about how they got a Morgan dollar with eight tail feathers on the eagle for the price of the same dollar with seven feathers.</p><p><br /></p><p>You could probably convince your friends your Late Roman Bronze is real by stickering on an $849 price tag.&nbsp; Or do what [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER] does and buy museum deaccessions.&nbsp; But why?&nbsp; You wouldn’t want your friend to convince you that Miles Davis is the best trumpet player or that the 1963 Corvette is the best Chevrolet — even though both might be true.&nbsp; If you spend an hour trying to convince your friends that “Roman history is fascinating” you obligate yourself to listening patiently to their lecture “Weber makes a pretty decent gas grill”.&nbsp; Are you ready for that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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