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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7576468, member: 86498&quot;]Last year during the Covid crises which for my part of the planet started mid March 2020, I could say I had a pretty good year. This year not so much. I might be lucky to have 10 let alone a top ten this year.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Enough whining. Like Andrew though I am by no means as skilled as he is I do try as much as possible to find out as much as I can about my coins. I agree with Ancient Joe that we do owe it to our coins but more so to ourselves to learn their stories. The coin with the best pedigree that I acquired this year (so far) is this one</p><p>Geta Ae Sestertius 211 AD Obv. Bust right laureate Rv. Fortuna seated left RIC 168a 28.03 30 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1306074[/ATTACH]I could have purchased this coin at the Roma XX Auction but was hammered by another purchase that pretty well&nbsp; wiped me out. I saw it later and bought it. One thing did change on this coin was that it had a new pedigree dating back to a H C Levis Collection which was auctioned&nbsp; on June 18 1925&nbsp; in a Ars Classica SA Auction. I was able to find a digital copy of that auction. (thank you Andrew) and was able to confirm that the coin was in that sale. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Now at some point I need to work out who this H G Levis is. No luck on the internet but when I get back to a good library I can try looking him up in a contemporary British Whos Who.</p><p>&nbsp;As for Ancient Joes comment about encouragement I have always felt that when I see a great coin or a group of great coins, that instead of being discouraged I leave with the feeling that I can try to do better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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