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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3196216, member: 95174&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Obsession, Yes.! Every time I complete the goal of the collection I raise the bar.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">I started collecting Empresses on Roman Imperial coins, then one coin that I acquired started this obsession. Took me weeks to figure out what it was.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">[ATTACH=full]826111[/ATTACH] </span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">One thing I did was keep my original album of Forum, I did this&nbsp; because of the comments of friends of mine in the hobby who have sadly passed on, it is an interesting time capsule on how my collection has evolved since then. Here is my collection when it was 5 years old in 2006.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=26" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=26" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=26</a></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">and now the collection literally has 100&#039;s of coins, this gallery contains only my best examples.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=5633</a></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">I am now trying to figure of the riddles of the denomination such as how was it used, why the huge weight variations on official issues. Part of this is studying the coins I have and acquire and the rest is keeping up on the little bit of academic literature written that involves the denomination. </span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Obsession , Yes! </span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">&nbsp;</span></font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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