Greek and Roman Coins Found

Nice story but this quote made me cringe, especially if the claim of them being "pristine" is true.

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-reg...riceless-collection-of-ancient-coins-20150311

 

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I'm ok with them being handled. Let's just hope the curators don't decide to countermark the coins with the university stamp. That was not a rare practice back in the day. I have one such coin, an anonymous quadrans with the stamp AU.

 

So, you are a big proponent of slabbing, I take it? Hehe.

 

I suspect this translates into the university will have the coins slabbed.

 

If that mark could be attributed, I would actually place a small premium on it.

 

Asshole University?

 

My alma mater

 

Lol, at times, when it comes to very high value ancients, I could accept it. But if they are as nice as claimed, I would hate to have "students" handle them after having eaten greasy chips or lord know what before class or even during or even the accidental drop.

If they were junk like gordian III Ants, LRB or something, then I wouldnt care myself.

 

Hey I like LRB'S

 

faux pas...ha

 

This has way too many likes. Lol

 

I think that encapsulating or encasing them in any way would be a severe detriment to that collection. I've examined coins at both the ANS and the British Museum and guess what, they're into little individual containers too. You need to actually handle them to properly examine the dies or to run metallurgical analyses.

 

Hah, yeah... I felt bad after clicking "like". I "like" that it was funny but don't really think of you as suitable material for that particular university

 

Don't worry Ard, man, that's where i got my masters in science!

go fighting A Holes! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Maybe i'll see you at the home coming game.

 

amazing find. glad they found them.

 

Here's a link shared on another forum which shows most of the coins: http://wivb.com/2015/03/11/u-b-finds-treasure-trove-of-ancient-coins/

It's a great find, although I'm curious as to how they're going to make an entire graduate program out of studying just these coins.

 

"U of A"

=> Amazingly, that is where I got my Masters of Science degree!! (small world, A?)

 

I'm probably having more trouble with the concept that a faculty member with no numismatic background will be teaching the graduate level course. It appears the coins were labeled when found. Perhaps we should volunteer to help out but Buffalo is too cold for me so we'll have to send Steve.

 

Wonder if they would even accept any help