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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2891529, member: 14873&quot;]In all fairness I need to clarify: the collection I was offering consisted of a selection of the following Roman Britain associated coins from my collection (not the ones I feature on my latest Britannic Coinage of the Tetrarchy web page): there were some Julio-Claudian bronzes (mostly Claudius, Hadrian and Commodus); some Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta “victory over Britannia” denarii; Carausius &amp; Allectus antoniniani and some Tetrarchic London Mint folles. So I didn’t have a web page that featured those coins to link to (although I would have written one if they would have asked). As I mentioned, the Curator was interested and appreciative, but she could not give me any assurance that the collection I was offering would be kept on display (accompanied by my name as the donor) or even kept intact. It seems you have to be a collector or numismatist of considerable stature (which I am not) to be able to specify display options (understandable). In his contribution to this thread Doug Smith explained very well what seems to be the prevailing rationale adopted by museums in general toward donations by amateur collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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