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Message:: [QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 2609810, member: 51347"]My first were actually FIVE. Including FOUR Athena Tets and an Alexander III Drachm. I purchased them from a friend back in the early '90's who owned a Stained Glass Shop with a few ancients in his cabinet. We talked a lot about ancient histories, and came to learn he had a very extensive collection of ancients. He was about my age, and had been collecting Ancients for years. He let me buy these, and several others for a "song", because of our friendship. Sad to say, he passed a couple years later from a very painful and debilitating bone disease. [ATTACH=full]570750[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]570753[/ATTACH] I took a lot of Ancient History courses in University, and really enjoyed Ancient Greece and Makedonon history (yeah and a lot of Roman courses too...)  I particularly enjoyed Alexander III the Great and the impact he made on the known world.  My undergrad degree is in Finance, though... They aren't "super" by most Ancient collectors standards, but they mean a lot to me. It helped me really understand that the coins carry an enormous amount of history, both because of its mintage and because of the wear and tear. The wear of people transacting them in trade and exchange... trade is the vitality of humans.[/QUOTE]