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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 3958007, member: 4298&quot;]As many others, when I started collecting ancients in the late 70&#039;-early 80&#039;, I used to think (naïve young lad) everybody would be interested in seeing them, thus I would show them to the entire world everytime I was given the chance. Of course they weren&#039;t. Reason why I now only show my coins online to people willing to look at them, or, in real life, exclusively on request : I have a &quot;box of 40&quot; with french coins from the middle ages to the euro, mostly featuring portraits, as it&#039;s what talks to people (is that the actual portrait of Henri IV or Louis XIV ?). When they don&#039;t look fed up and ask for more I pull out the big guns <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from that, my wife shows a very selective interest for some greek classical coins (remember she gifted me with an athenian owl three years ago), a few romans (she finds all emperors to look the same, but she eventually owns one roman republlc denarius featuring the hound dog she&#039;s had for 15 years). Although she&#039;s not at all a collector, she would be able to collect about the french revolution, as it&#039;s a period of History she particularily likes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, I&#039;ve been lucky to meet some ancient coins collectors at the local club when I was 20, some of them have become and still are friends, and we have some annual coin shows of some interest in the hundred miles around. In the pre-internet era it has allowed me to interact with people about ancients, and I didn&#039;t feel that alone in my hobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>Internet has changed a lot of things, as everybody has already written about. But France isn&#039;t a big country. So some people I&#039;ve met online, I&#039;ve had the opportunity to meet in the real world, and some have become very good friends too. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would very much like to meet some of you CT folks, as I have some good feelings with many people here, but travelling to the USA or to Singapore isn&#039;t something I do every week <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. That said, a few years back, after we&#039;ve met online, I visited a fellow collector living in Connecticut (for some reason he&#039;s an avid collector of Dombes coinage, and we&#039;ve been challenging each other on some occasions at auction). His Dombes collection (and other fields aswell) is huge and amazing. I was glad to meet him, see his collection and share some good time. Of course I couln&#039;t show him mine, traveling abroad with a coin collection being impossible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing, which might look secondary, but important for me, is that reading and writing some english everyday, has dramatically improved my understanding and skills at using what was before nothing but a foreign language.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re not alone !</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/52/46/4f/52464f69066eff61127517c2f96de4da.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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