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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 2891515, member: 5682&quot;]What a beautiful collection and great photos. Thank you. It is good to see someone trying to do things right in regard to numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>It saddens me, however, to see that many museums have minimized numismatics in their collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Getty Villa near Los Angeles, for example, is a beautiful recreation of a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum, Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.getty.edu/visit/villa/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.getty.edu/visit/villa/" rel="nofollow">http://www.getty.edu/visit/villa/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Its feeble numismatics exhibit, however, is embarrassing. It consisted of just a few display cases with no social or historical context.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]695130[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]695132[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695133[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]695131[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]695135[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the folks on this subforum have far better coin collections than what I saw at the Getty. (And remember, the Getty foundation has far more money than most museums and certainly more than any of us to spend on some nice pieces.) The small coin collection and its display was amateurish, at best.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Getty&#039;s statues, architecture, and art work was breathtaking, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>This stone monument below from the Getty Villa touched me deeply and reminds me of why I love ancient history.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]695141[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]695142[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is how most coin collections at museums are preserved and enjoyed, tucked away in some dark recess of a forgotten storage room:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]695149[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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