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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2075330, member: 19463&quot;]I have expressed before a dislike of museums as we now know them.&nbsp; Even the best feel the need to show coins as second class exhibits if they show them at all.&nbsp; These two photos were taken by my wife when she visited the British Museum.&nbsp; They show coins not good enough to make the cut as exhibits on their own heaped up.&nbsp; Are they glued together?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]385137[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]385138[/ATTACH] </p><p>The British Museum is the best coin museum there is.&nbsp; They recently have posted thousands of photos of Republican coin in their collection so they can be seen and enjoyed by people like me who will never even be in their country.&nbsp; I love the British Museum catalogs I own.&nbsp; Still they display coins like this.&nbsp; The other hundreds of thousands of coins certainly could not be displayed in a way a coin fanatic would like due to space and cost.&nbsp; Photos would seem to be the only answer.&nbsp; I agree with AJ but point out that the bracelet really says more about the age of excess which made the coins into jewelry than it does about antiquity.&nbsp; One of those coins looks like it could be Boscoreale.&nbsp; Today we see quite a few aurei and solidi marked &#039;ex jewelry&#039;&nbsp; so perhaps being made into these bracelets kept these coins from being melted down like so many of their brethren.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody wants to see my low grade, damaged, ex jewelry Theodosius II so here it is.&nbsp;&nbsp; A privately owned cull can get exposure that a museum basement can not afford its mint state gem rarities.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]385139[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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