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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Any coin collectors???
From: Nick Taylor <ntaylor@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:44:48 -0800
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> 
> Not really, but I do have an undated silver coin from the
> Greece/Macedon area with the face of Alexander the Great from about
> 330 B.C.  The back is messed up due to fusing with other coins lying
> in a tomb for 2000 years.  I love the idea that people touched it,
> carried it around and used it so long ago. Maybe used it to buy wine
> for a party. It sort of telescopes time. I suppose I am basically a
> romantic.
> --
> Winsor Crosby
> Long Beach, California

For me one of the cool things about coin collecting is that it
facilitates mental time travel!

  -Nick T.

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