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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5158378, member: 19463"]While I 'prefer' #7 and #8, I suppose a lot of that is the sad realization that your #1 purchase for this year is not going to cause you to turn loose the Best of All Times Gortyna. While I do like the coin it is almost as pleasing to say I know the person who owns it and that he is exactly the right person to be entrusted with its care. In general, all of your coins shown over the years make sense to me and there are very, very few collectors I have known with whose taste I have agreed as consistently. Thank to Coin Talk I have been able to know someone a world away whom I will never see in person but that is an honored friend in our hobby. </p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. What did you have to sell to keep your promise to your wife? This is a coin that might have been a bargain at twice the price BUT STILL it was not the definition of cheap. </p><p><br /></p><p>While I wait for the hare with mule biga to come my way, I have consolation in the Messana litra and a 0.1g. Rhegion hexas (1/6 of your #7) with lion scalp.[ATTACH=full]1209445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1209444[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5158378, member: 19463"]While I 'prefer' #7 and #8, I suppose a lot of that is the sad realization that your #1 purchase for this year is not going to cause you to turn loose the Best of All Times Gortyna. While I do like the coin it is almost as pleasing to say I know the person who owns it and that he is exactly the right person to be entrusted with its care. In general, all of your coins shown over the years make sense to me and there are very, very few collectors I have known with whose taste I have agreed as consistently. Thank to Coin Talk I have been able to know someone a world away whom I will never see in person but that is an honored friend in our hobby. P.S. What did you have to sell to keep your promise to your wife? This is a coin that might have been a bargain at twice the price BUT STILL it was not the definition of cheap. While I wait for the hare with mule biga to come my way, I have consolation in the Messana litra and a 0.1g. Rhegion hexas (1/6 of your #7) with lion scalp.[ATTACH=full]1209445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1209444[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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