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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Raymond Beracha, post: 1624081, member: 26854&quot;]Cool story riff.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a kid in the 70&#039;s I spent a lot of time alone in the library reading old books about old times.&nbsp; I was particularly fascinated by what they used to call the &quot;Dark Ages.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>School taught you the Greeks figured out everything, the Roman Empire ruined it then collapsed then nothing happened for hundreds of years.&nbsp; Suddenly Da Vinci and friends were enlightened.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t buy it.&nbsp; There had to have been a lot going on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I walked into an antique shop at age 16 and found this in a junk box:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]231064.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Justinan 1 circa 550AD</p><p><br /></p><p>I researched it and it blew my mind I could touch history.&nbsp; Who used that coin?&nbsp; What did it see?&nbsp; Was it in a battle? And it was from a time in history I was heavily into.</p><p><br /></p><p>Went to college, found girls, lived overseas for a decade, got married and had kids and was &quot;distracted&quot; from the hobby many times but always came back to it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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