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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3214931, member: 57495"]Seeking out some unrelated information today, I came across an article titled "The Coins of Pompeii" by Marvin Tameanko. It was published in an old issue of The Celator, and I thought I'd drop a link to it in this thread in case anyone is interested:</p><p><a href="https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.17-No.01-Jan-2003.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.17-No.01-Jan-2003.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.17-No.01-Jan-2003.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I found the table of coin finds breaking down the quantity and denominations discovered in various spots around Pompeii intriguing. In particular, there was a small hoard discovered in a house that the author suggests may have belonged to a coin collector. Kept in a small fancy box, the 184 coins were of different denominations, had numerous different reverses, spanned the period 135 BC to AD 79, and included 23 Legionary denarii of Mark Antony. It sounds plausible that like [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] this Pompeiian resident might have been trying to complete a set of them. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A little something else that some of us may appreciate in this issue (on page 4), a reader's poem bemoaning the imminent catastrophe to the hobby that is "The Slabbing of Ancients", dated January 2003. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie93" alt=":troll:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3214931, member: 57495"]Seeking out some unrelated information today, I came across an article titled "The Coins of Pompeii" by Marvin Tameanko. It was published in an old issue of The Celator, and I thought I'd drop a link to it in this thread in case anyone is interested: [url]https://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.17-No.01-Jan-2003.pdf[/url] I found the table of coin finds breaking down the quantity and denominations discovered in various spots around Pompeii intriguing. In particular, there was a small hoard discovered in a house that the author suggests may have belonged to a coin collector. Kept in a small fancy box, the 184 coins were of different denominations, had numerous different reverses, spanned the period 135 BC to AD 79, and included 23 Legionary denarii of Mark Antony. It sounds plausible that like [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] this Pompeiian resident might have been trying to complete a set of them. :) A little something else that some of us may appreciate in this issue (on page 4), a reader's poem bemoaning the imminent catastrophe to the hobby that is "The Slabbing of Ancients", dated January 2003. :troll:[/QUOTE]
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