CATCHING UP ON CALLS
I wanted to use the afternoon to check all my notes and make some contacts. I called a friend in the States about staters, and he confirmed their rarity and value.
“You mean trites, right?” he asked for confirmation.
“No. Full staters.”
“Oh, yeah, wow. Those are really rare. Did you find some?”
“I’ll get to that later.”
I asked him about the cultural meaning that might attach to them, but he had no direct answer.
“Ancient coins and their value—that’s my field, Darren. Questions about their importance to the countries and cultures from whence they came is out of my league. Why do you ask?”
I filled him in on what Yusuf Demir told me, what I learned of coins from Daniel Thomas Corwin, and what we pieced together about connections between the Lydians and the Etrus
