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<p>[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5253433, member: 111037"]Nice grosso, but this phrase of yours made me think.. We are used to the idea that the coins we collect spent a considerable amount of time buried in the ground, but do you think that is also the case with Venetian coins? A slightly comedic reasoning is that it is kinda hard to bury coins in Venice, but there is also the fact that Venice was never sacked/destroyed and that the rich families and their mansions survived hundreds of years after the coins were minted and many of them still exist. So maybe it is viable that many of those coins simply survived in old chests or hidden away in safes and occasionally changed hands until they were deemed collectible? I think that is an interesting thought! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Only a Poor Old Man, post: 5253433, member: 111037"]Nice grosso, but this phrase of yours made me think.. We are used to the idea that the coins we collect spent a considerable amount of time buried in the ground, but do you think that is also the case with Venetian coins? A slightly comedic reasoning is that it is kinda hard to bury coins in Venice, but there is also the fact that Venice was never sacked/destroyed and that the rich families and their mansions survived hundreds of years after the coins were minted and many of them still exist. So maybe it is viable that many of those coins simply survived in old chests or hidden away in safes and occasionally changed hands until they were deemed collectible? I think that is an interesting thought! :happy:[/QUOTE]
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