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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2828579, member: 82549&quot;]Over many years of cleaning uncleaned coins I had developed a large backlog of coins that I could ID to emperor and often type and mint, etc., but were in too rough a shape to bother selling on eBay. (And keep in mind that if I paid $1.00 for an uncleaned coin and it ended up bringing $3 at auction, I considered that a success.) So one Halloween I offered trick-or-treaters the choice of candy or an ancient Greek or Roman coin (mostly LRBs). Most of the people were mildly interested and thought it was pretty cool when I assured them that they were genuine, but a couple of kids were totally blown away. One boy of around 10 or so was totally awestruck and explained that he was fascinated with ancient Rome, so I rooted around the box a little bit, found a coin of Marcus Aurelius, and gave him that one, too, telling him that he should do a little research about M.A. and see what he could find out about him. I&#039;m sure I started at least one person collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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