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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 3933237, member: 84905&quot;]&quot;The past is a foreign country ...&quot; I think this quote by L.P. Hartley sums up my fascination with coins pretty well. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you do family research you maybe able to trace your family back to the 17th or&nbsp; 16th century if you are lucky. And then you realize that this is not even half way back to Charlemagne, or another 1000 years to the fall of Rome. These people and their lives are incredibly distant and foreign. Yet, coins are a real connection, much more than other objects, because they can be attributed and often directly linked to certain people and eras.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an example, the Gepidic kingdom that existed in the 6th century in what is now Serbia is a very distant, foreign and ephemeral phenomenon. Their kings like Turisind, Elemund and Cunimund are hardly more than names that are not much more real than those in novels like Lord of the Rings. Yet, their coins make it real, they are a real tangible connection. That is why I&#039;m interested in coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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