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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3590223, member: 72790&quot;]You know, I have wondered about that sort of thing, even into modern times. I have seen what were obviously ancient coins so worn, and worn smoothly with a hard patina, that the images were unrecognizable as ancients&nbsp; (some of these in coin shop junk boxes). It does not look like these things came out of the ground or a buried amphora, just having been in circulation for a long, long time. Perhaps someone more familiar with the Middle East or North Africa could tell us if ancient coins are ever offered as payment for goods, not as coins of antiquity, but just as very old coins of somebody with some intrinsic value as bronze or copper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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