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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5444234, member: 110504"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], I had to go for the John VIII ones. But only because you're only letting us pick one! Those are particularly great for how much of the legends they have.</p><p>But I also thought that the Athenian archaic drachm is no less so, for being so unmistakably what it is, despite the amount of honest, pleasingly even wear. Betting that if I'd seen it, I'd've tried for it, as a first representative of the issue.</p><p>Ditto for your Cleopatra AE --the profile works exactly the same way as your Athenian drachm.</p><p>...The details about your collecting process are great, generally. To quote the film version of <i>A Man For All Seasons</i>, "Your taste in music is <i>excellent</i>! It <i>exactly</i> coincides with my own!" (Here's what I could find on YouTube; that line happens about a minute into this clip: [MEDIA=youtube]PgJDtf7iops[/MEDIA] )</p><p>Another resonant demonstration of that is your solidus of Marcian --sounds like you slid into home with that one, given prevailing price trajectories. Your historical context for it --of which I was completely innocent (snort)-- is especially cool.</p><p>...But all of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid ones are Seriously Solid. --Really liking how early the Ptolemy II one is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5444234, member: 110504"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], I had to go for the John VIII ones. But only because you're only letting us pick one! Those are particularly great for how much of the legends they have. But I also thought that the Athenian archaic drachm is no less so, for being so unmistakably what it is, despite the amount of honest, pleasingly even wear. Betting that if I'd seen it, I'd've tried for it, as a first representative of the issue. Ditto for your Cleopatra AE --the profile works exactly the same way as your Athenian drachm. ...The details about your collecting process are great, generally. To quote the film version of [I]A Man For All Seasons[/I], "Your taste in music is [I]excellent[/I]! It [I]exactly[/I] coincides with my own!" (Here's what I could find on YouTube; that line happens about a minute into this clip: [MEDIA=youtube]PgJDtf7iops[/MEDIA] ) Another resonant demonstration of that is your solidus of Marcian --sounds like you slid into home with that one, given prevailing price trajectories. Your historical context for it --of which I was completely innocent (snort)-- is especially cool. ...But all of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid ones are Seriously Solid. --Really liking how early the Ptolemy II one is.[/QUOTE]
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