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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2295153, member: 76194&quot;]Unless the coin was resting in someone&#039;s mouth (as was a custom for the dead back then), I don&#039;t know bome calcification would be the cause of this phenomenon you speak of...especially when cremation was so popular. Come to think of it, a coin in a corpse&#039;s mouth might not fare well the cremation process.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in the late Empire period, I doubt Christians would be buried with grave goods as there is no need for post-mortem wealth in Christian theology.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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