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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FitzNigel, post: 2296304, member: 74712&quot;]I don&#039;t see how Roman burial practices (or cremation practices, as the case may be) enter into the argument.&nbsp; The Truly Blue Patina has already been established as exceedingly rare, and if it is caused by dead bodies, the fact that the Romans don&#039;t bury their dead would clearly explain the rarity.&nbsp; Not every Roman who dies will have someone to burn his/her remains.&nbsp; Accidental deaths in the wilderness, with a few coins in the pocket, may well lead to the coins being in contact with a decaying body.&nbsp; The poor no doubt couldn&#039;t afford cremation, and there are accounts of the bodies of the poor being left in the garbage dump outside the city of Rome - there may have been a few coins in there too!&nbsp; I am by no means a chemist, and couldn&#039;t begin to explain a blue patina, but Roman custom can&#039;t simply rule out the near-infinite possibilities of what happened to millions of ancient Roman remains[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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