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Message:: [QUOTE="Eric Kondratieff, post: 2434196, member: 78618"]I have just read the entire thread this morning (don't know how I missed it over the weekend) and am thoroughly exhausted by the delights of seeing so many wonderful "Favorite Twelves" (yes, even the "lesser" sets are great fun to see because of, e.g., range, color, persistence in set completion, etc.). This reminds me (in virtual form) of the great fun I used to have going to the San Francisco Ancient Numismatic Society (SFANS) in the 1980s and 1990s (before I moved to the east coast for grad school and a career change), and seeing the trays full of wonders assembled by astute, sensitive, and well-off collectors (the great RBW was one of its members; I remember the day he brought in his first of two Sextus Pompey aurei and talked about his wife's reaction to the purchase price). When I started in the club in the mid 1980s, there were some very OLD collectors who had been collecting in the 1910s who would show off lovely Syracusan decadrachms they'd bought back then for the princely sum of $12 or something like that. We younger collectors would groan (inwardly). And, the room was FULL of cigar smoke... Those were the days! Anyway, thanks to all of you for bringing something of that back into my life in this group. It makes me feel a little less isolated here in South Central Kentucky to have visual/textual access to others interested in ancient numismatics. Cheers![/QUOTE]