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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3552321, member: 10461"]Generalists, unite! Hooray!</p><p><br /></p><p>I sometimes feel adrift and befuddled in this realm of specialists and scholars, since I am neither.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(I <i>respect</i> and often admire those scholars and specialists, but sometimes they make me want to flee the room, if you know what I mean.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Don't get me wrong- I'm fascinated by the history- <i>generally</i>- but I seldom care if a coin is RIC-this or BMC-that, or whether the die axis is 93.5° or what officina struck it or how big the serifs on the letters are or what color tunic the celator wore. </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(OK, maybe that last factoid might be fun to know.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>I know all that stuff has its place. I'm just not that kind of collector. Yet. (Probably <i>ever</i>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But diameter does seem a useful bit of information to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3552321, member: 10461"]Generalists, unite! Hooray! I sometimes feel adrift and befuddled in this realm of specialists and scholars, since I am neither. [SIZE=3](I [I]respect[/I] and often admire those scholars and specialists, but sometimes they make me want to flee the room, if you know what I mean.)[/SIZE] Don't get me wrong- I'm fascinated by the history- [I]generally[/I]- but I seldom care if a coin is RIC-this or BMC-that, or whether the die axis is 93.5° or what officina struck it or how big the serifs on the letters are or what color tunic the celator wore. [SIZE=3](OK, maybe that last factoid might be fun to know.)[/SIZE] I know all that stuff has its place. I'm just not that kind of collector. Yet. (Probably [I]ever[/I].) But diameter does seem a useful bit of information to me.[/QUOTE]
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