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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8257778, member: 110226&quot;]My first ancient coin, an Alexander III tetradrachm of Salamis, has long departed these shores, as have many other coins acquired in the late 70s and 80s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way I can now identify earlier coins is by the holders they are in.&nbsp; My very early coins, at least the really nice ones, are in Gem Velopes, a long extinct line (from the market) of yellow paper envelopes with cotton liners that were available on a limited basis in the early 1980s.&nbsp; The liners were reportedly made by some nuns - whether there&#039;s any truth to that, I&#039;ll leave to your imagination.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two ancient coins in these envelopes.&nbsp; One, I am pretty sure, is a later purchase that I transferred to a Gem Velope, leaving one, which, for lack of a better memory, is now the earliest ancient purchased back in the early 80s from Harlan Berk.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was actually sold to my local coin dealer when we were buying the house in 1993, but I was able to buy it back from him later.&nbsp; That&#039;s his writing on the envelope.&nbsp; My original label was attached on the back with some adhesive tape, long removed.&nbsp; The dealer probably thought that was a weird way to mount a label, and he was right.&nbsp; Envelope to the left, cotton liner to the right.</p><p><br /></p><p>16.8 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1456093[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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