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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3948994, member: 56859&quot;]Dear Z...</p><p><br /></p><p>It is such a pleasure to know you and if you weren&#039;t my friend I&#039;d have to hate you a bit for the superlatively interesting coins you find!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Your writeups are always engaging, full of subtle wit and humility and this year-end list is no exception.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d love to have <b>every single coin</b> shown.&nbsp; Not only are they desirable in their own right but most have interesting pedigrees as well.&nbsp; Pozzi?&nbsp; Yes please!&nbsp; My favorite pedigree though is &quot;Highly Important Collection of Greek Coins of a Man in Love with Art&quot; and I love that NAC used such a phrase rather than his name, initials, or some other one word moniker for the collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ephesus Gallienus was a great score of a coin showing what provincials are all about:&nbsp; a concise depiction of a locally important scene.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Your A-Pi Harpodile drachm... man, I wish mine were as nice!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Alopekonnesos with fox?!&nbsp; So jealous.&nbsp; Not a common animal on ancient coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>Your voting scene denarius has oodles of eye appeal.</p><p><br /></p><p>The leafy &quot;wings&quot; of Artemis on the Ephesus Salonina are beautiful and unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>Great portrait on that Decius hockey puck!</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius ship in circus-- you know I love that one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your first Ambrakian stater is a doozie.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Another</i> Festival of Isis coin when some of us still done have their first?&nbsp; Humph!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>What a year!</p><p><br /></p><p>I truly cannot choose a favorite here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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