Wow! It's Been over a Year

since I joined Cointalk.com. Just wanted to say thanks for all of the wonderful posts, valuable scholarship, and things I have learned since joining. While coin collecting can be a solitary experience, it is much more social with this Forum and has become 100% more enjoyable. So, thanks to everyone!

 

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You've been here just a year? Seems like an eternity to me.

Just kidding...glad to have you here. I've enjoyed your posts immensely.

Here's a coin of your avatar.


Gordian III
Best Roman Emperor ever!!!

 

Glad you joined! What a great family we have here on the Ancients board

 

Time flies when you're having fun...

 

Enjoyed your posts immensely, glad you joined CT and looking forward to more of your posts.

 

Thank you as well A.C.H, for your sincere and fruitful participation. Hope the best for the coming future.

 

Man I lurked for a year before I started posting!

 

Man, you've only been coming here for a year!? Sheesh, and I've been trusting everything you have been saying as if you were a tenured CTer like a sucker! JK. Your posts are always interesting and insightful

 

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..happy ein jahr ACH

 

Do you remember your first post at CT ancients? I remember mine but it was difficult to find it. Back in the day both World & ancient were the same forum so I had to search through many titles to find this one from April 2011: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/i-finally-bought-the-famous-ancient-coin.171716/

That might be fun to read everyone's first ancient post at CT.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/unwanted-advice-for-new-ancient-coin-collectors.70890/

Not the first but the above 2009 post shows that I have been singing the same song for a long time and my advice is no more wanted now than then. Most of my early posts were no subjects other than ancients since there was little action here on ancients until we invaded CT after two regulars were kicked off Coin Community.

 

My first thread is full of cringe worthy moments and ignorance. Let's re-live the moment....shall we?

Ouch....that's right, I was a die hard slab addict who worshipped the "infallible" gods known as NGC and PCGS. Little did I know that ancients would kill my slab addiction in no time, something which I never would have thought possible.

Let's see what other hilarious or cringy things I said:

Hahahahaha. What I couldnt habe known at the time was that I would never again purchase a modern coin. In fact, within 2 weeks I had sold off all my modern coins to a dealer so I could buy more ancient coins.

Surely this can't get any worse... right guys, right? Let us see my prediction for how many ancient coins I'd purchase per year.

LOL, within 2 months I had 15 ancient coins, and a year later I had 68 ancient coins, and now 2 and a half years later I have 133 ancient coins. Notice how I didn't even mention ancient Greek coins, or Celtic, etc...that's because I didn't even know any of that stuff existed. Back then I thought Romans had invented coinage.

Anyway, here is the link to this source of severe embarrassment for me:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ne...club-introducing-himself.270515/#post-2270371

 

Congratulations @ancient coin hunter! I joined CT in 2007, but apparently it took another 6 years for me to post something.

Scroll about half way down.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/half-a-croc-a-common-ancient.221802/#post-1627888

 

Glad all of you are here now! jim

 

Congrats!


@Sallent I cringe at my recents post

 

Glad to have you here at CT ACH
I can't remember my first post here, it's as far back as september 2005

Q

 

Congrats, mate! Happy 1CT Year!!

 

Your contributions are great @ancient coin hunter ! Fun to have you around.

Now get back to work and start posting some more cool coins!!!

So, here is a coin I captured the day you joined CT:


Syracuse, Sicily,
Pyrrhus of Epirus, 278 - 276 B.C.
Bronze litra, Syracuse mint, 11.5g, 23.3mm, die axis 270o,
Obv: head of Herakles left, clad in Nemean Lion scalp headdress;
Rev: ΣYPA−KOΣIΩN, Athena Promachos advancing right, hurling thunderbolt with right, shield in left
Ref: (From FORUM) Calciati II p. 321, 176; SNG Cop 813, SNG ANS 852; SGCV I 1214; HGC 2, 1451, VF/F,

Comment: In 279 B.C., Pyrrhus' forces, supporting the Greek cities of southern Italy, met and defeated the Romans at the battle of Asculum in Apulia. Pyrrhus, however, lost many men, several close associates, and all of his baggage. When one of his soldiers congratulated him on his victory, he famously replied: "Another such victory and we are ruined!" From this we have the term Pyrric victory, a victory achieved at ruinous cost.