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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FrizzyAntoine, post: 4985546, member: 114961&quot;]I&#039;ve loved history ever since I was a child. I can&#039;t quite pinpoint when it started, but a major inflection point was my 7th birthday. My grandfather gave me a small oxford university press &#039;textbook&#039; covering the main cultures and events of the ancient world, everything from egypt to the indus valley and from the first farmers down to the crusades. That was the first time I read about the hittites, the pharoahs, taxila, etc. and it was absolutely awe-inspiring stuff, especially for a 7-year-old. One of the stories that stuck with me the most was the persian wars. Reading about how Leonidas had stood, fought, and died at thermopylae and then the outnumbered greeks had used the narrow straits at salamis to push back the superpower of their day was fascinating stuff. After that I&#039;d spend my free time watching documentaries about the ancient world whenever they were on, and convincing my parents to buy me more books on ancient history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite all that, ancient coins were still very much a serendipidous inclusiuon in my life. I had collected canadian coins as a kid, and left my collection to stagnate by the time I started high school. Then one night a few years ago, after finding a bag of old canadian coins I had never sorted through and no longer wished to spend any time on, I decided I wanted to start collecting again, but something more interesting this time. I remembered I had bought a few mughal coins while on vacation in India, and expecting there might be some hope of collecting other medieval coins I typed &quot;medieval coins for sale&quot; into google. Lo and behold, I came across vcoins and discovered that greek and roman coins are sold all the time, and for much less than I could have imagined. That was the moment I knew I had to have one. Well, one certianly wasn&#039;t enough, neither were two, and before I knew it I was spending a couple hours every day scrolling through auction catalogues and reading books on ancient coins. At this point my family jokes that I have an addiction. Honestly they&#039;re not wrong. In a strictly biomedical sense, the dopamine rush I get from coins, and my reaction to the thought of stopping, probably isn&#039;t far off the mark for most substance use disorders. Be that as it may, the high I get from ancients is more than worth the regular beatings my wallet has had to endure these past years, and I have no plans to ever stop collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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