Thank you all! I can hardly believe it, since, as I said in a PM to someone, I am not a full-fledged
numismatist, and four or five friends (all
members of this
Forvm), besides
Behrendt Pick could I only thank him, have been my teachers. Until 1999 I only dabbled. I kept thinking, I am like the Foreign Film at the Oscars.
I only would make a claim for my discipline, Art and Archaeology. It is not nothing to try to be at least half masters of the whole. It is not at this moment academically a majority trend, but trends shift and change, and the integration of disciplines in some depth will keep them all alive. Classical art historians are the ones who cannot ignore any sister discipline.
By the way, by 'full-fledged' above, I meant capable of solo sustained flight. I also know that Luigi (Tacrolimus) is himself
very good in art and archaeology,
nor is he the only one, though the breadth of the subject makes it for anyone a lifelong pursuit.
Pat Lawrence