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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2572885, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;m shipping this coin away to Greece in a couple of days.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Just gave</i> it away, can you believe that?</p><p><br /></p><p>An old friend of mine loves this coin and always has. Being a Greek architect, with their economy in the crapper, he has fallen on hard times. But in his better days he sold me some beautiful stuff and outright <i>gave</i> ME $100-200+ coins on at least two occasions.</p><p><br /></p><p>It took some soul-searching to detach from this piece, but after a month of dithering around, I knew what the right thing to do was.</p><p><br /></p><p>What comes around goes around. I finally reached that Zen state where I realized this coin belongs to <i>him</i> now.</p><p><br /></p><p>First I had to tease him a bit and tell him I was shipping it away, because I had been holding it for him while he tried to scrape up the money. Initially I had wanted to sell it at a profit, then I came down to offering to him at cost, then, after more soul-searching, I knew what I had to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Knocked his sox off when I told him that the person I was shipping it to was <i>him</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>His reaction alone was worth the money I had invested in this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some things, like a good friendship, are worth more than mere silver or gold, and I told him that.</p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t like he hadn&#039;t already done a whole lot more than that for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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