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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3246568, member: 91461"]I think I'll double dip here. And that's a double entendre. As, I am posting twice in a single thread. Sin one. And this second one isn't even ancient. Capital sin! (Jk [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER])</p><p>Funny enough, the other night while I was justifying purchasing this medallion to my wife, I explained that the portrait is the same as my minds eye envisions that Napoleon looked like. For someone who died just a few years shy of 200 ago there are many different images of what he looks like. Long shaggy Ringo Star hair (presumably while out on campaign) to balding and fat (which he was at the end). Sometimes the only thing in common is the man's stature.</p><p>So for me, an almost exclusive collector of ancient coins, it was all about the portrait.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]851065[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 3246568, member: 91461"]I think I'll double dip here. And that's a double entendre. As, I am posting twice in a single thread. Sin one. And this second one isn't even ancient. Capital sin! (Jk [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER]) Funny enough, the other night while I was justifying purchasing this medallion to my wife, I explained that the portrait is the same as my minds eye envisions that Napoleon looked like. For someone who died just a few years shy of 200 ago there are many different images of what he looks like. Long shaggy Ringo Star hair (presumably while out on campaign) to balding and fat (which he was at the end). Sometimes the only thing in common is the man's stature. So for me, an almost exclusive collector of ancient coins, it was all about the portrait. [ATTACH=full]851065[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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