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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 2610165, member: 83175&quot;]I collected Irish and UK pre-decimal coins when a kid in the 1970s, but there were no coin shops in my town - once or twice a year I could get to a coin shop, so it was slow going.&nbsp;&nbsp; My collection was boosted by the donation of my aunt&#039;s collection/accumulation in the early 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; Every few years, I would buy Seaby/Spink &quot;Standard Catalogue of British Coins&quot; (SCBC) but didn&#039;t add many coins for nearly 20 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had two summers as a bus conductor in the mid-80s and got one 1826 shilling in change and another from 1917.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then, in the summer of 2001, in Madrid one Sunday morning, I wandered out of the fringes of the Rastro market into Plaza Mayor and happened on the coin stalls and bought a denarius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar.&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately, the coin itself was stolen in a burglary in 2004 (along with all the Roman silver coins I had at that time - fortunately, not many).&nbsp;&nbsp; I may have a photo&#039; somewhere, but not accessible right now.&nbsp;&nbsp; While SCBC lists a few Roman coins, I didn&#039;t have any catalogue listing my coin- I bought Sear&#039;s RCV Millennium edition volume 1, but of course it didn&#039;t go as far as Marcus Aurelius <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, then the second volume when it came out - while that did cover the era, it didn&#039;t have the coin in question.&nbsp;&nbsp; I finally captured it with RIC - volume 4 was on sale in amazon.co.uk for only £12.50 back sometime in 2005 - by which time, the coin was gone, but still!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the coin I&#039;m sticking in is my second ancient coin, an Istros drachm bought in March, 2002 from Spink.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s not a good photo&#039;, but a nice coin and maybe the heads looking in each direction is a suitable coin for January:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_IstrosDrachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>After that, I discovered eBay and so many other venues and ways of spending money on coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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