What Is One Thing You Think About When Handling A World Or Ancient Coin?

What Is One Thing You Think About When Handling A World Or Ancient Coin?

I wonder if a lawyer/advocate used the coin to purchase lunch.

What is one thing that goes through your mind, anything?

 

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absoloutly nothing, I am the type of people which have limited amount of feelings to objects ..

 

Do you collect coins?

 

Good question yes I do collect coins, and I do like good looking coins, but I will not have an emotional attachement to them.

it is like food, I do eat, but I could never understand how some people say that they loooooove chocolate fudge ice cream.

 

I am sure some food brings back good memories. Also, do you ever wonder who or what the model was pictured on that good looking coin?

 

I think that if I buy my wife another pair of shoes I can get away with buying another coin for me....lol

 

No real takers on sharing just one thought regarding the past of one world or ancient coin they have held?

When I held my first Roman bronze a few days ago, and after reading some of the excellent suggested readings, I wondered if the coin I held belonged to someone of low means who wondered whether to purchase some grapes, a peach or two, or a loaf of bread.

I am sure some have wondered even more mundane or more fantastical things when holding such a coin. Surely there are imaginative numismatists out there? Must because many have claimed such. Come on, don't be shy.

 

just WHO has held this coin before me................

 

Yes! Perhaps a baker, butler, or king.

 

When I look at my 1799 Bust Dollar I think of Anne Willing Bingham, a legendary socialite of her day and purported model for Miss Liberty. By 18th century standards she was a hottie, but would we think so today?

 

exactly just who???

 

As portrayed on the Draped Bust coins, she was, and is, a "hottie." She is gorgeous. That is the primary reason I love collecting Draped Bust cents.

PS I am ashamed to admit I did not know her name or who she was before now (that was one thing I wondered when holding one of these cents).

 

I always wonder who made the coins I have, and why (most of my ancients are not "government-issue"). I love it when I'm holding a coin that is the only record that a particular individual ever even lived. The thrill is even greater when he was a private person, not some monarch or general.

Check out this Byzantine seal, the only thing to suggest that Mr. Basileos Xeros, provincial tax-collector, ever existed:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=177486

 

One would have to wonder how many of his coins exist today to testify of his existence and profession?

 

That's it. Just one.

 

Feel free to add more. I was hoping to keep each post simple for easy perusal. The more the better. I am sure I am not the only one to wonder what others think. If that were the case, we would not be here now.

 

I often wonder what slaves may have held it and what work they did when that particular coin came into their possession. Same with a soldier, what battle did they fight.

Possibilities are endless.

 

Yes they are. I was hoping they would come out in this thread.

I wonder if a lady of the night dropped it and a child found it the next morning.

 

Not really, food is irrelevant to me
But you have a good point about models, but most of the coins I have have no faces, commonwealth coins have the queen or the king, I only have new US coins.

But I do like the coins with good designs, I want to say that I think about the people that created the wonderful designs, but I really do not.

If I collected ancient coins may be I will start thinking about the times that they were used in but not about who used them.

 

It would be a start.

Good comments. I appreciate your honest opinion on this question.