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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1693267, member: 39&quot;]Apparently so. Remember the saying that collecting coins is (well, used to be) the hobby of kings? It sure became popular, among those who could afford it, in the early Renaissance (roughly 15c). Maximilian Heinrich was not a king, but still quite an influential ruler. Here is a German <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Heinrich_von_Bayern#Pers.C3.B6nlichkeit" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Heinrich_von_Bayern#Pers.C3.B6nlichkeit" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> article which also says he collected coins. (In the first paragraph of the &quot;Persönlichkeit&quot; section you see &quot;Gold&quot; and &quot;Münzen&quot; ...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Side note: In his &quot;Prussian Chronicle&quot; Simon Grunau wrote, around 1500, about another bishop (Stephen, bishop of Kulm/Chełmno): &quot;He sat in his castle and spent the day looking at strange coins that he had. People said that he was eager to have coins from all countries. He did that out of stupidity, rather than for other reasons, when he was a very old man.&quot; Oh those weird collectors. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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