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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3397005, member: 10461&quot;]Here&#039;s what I know so far:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>I was told the box contains &quot;Roman and Chinese coins&quot;.&nbsp; The cursory glimpse I&#039;ve taken seems to bear this out.</li> <li>This is plainly an old-timey collection and not a totally random assemblage.&nbsp; I&#039;m seeing old square-window 2x2s and other clues indicative of a 45-50+ year-old collection from the 1960s or early &#039;70s at the latest.</li> <li>There is said to be some Chinese knife money in here.&nbsp; In fact, I have seen some pieces but have some doubt about their authenticity.&nbsp; (But I&#039;m totally in the dark about that particular stuff in any event, and will need to lean on [USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER] and others for any clue on Chinese material.)</li> <li>The few Roman coins I&#039;ve peeked at do look real.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen <strike>an EID MAR denarius</strike> some fairly typical looking LRBs, attributed, in old 2x2s, a small piece that looks like darkly toned silver which might have a portrait of Augustus, a bracelet made out of LRBs, and a couple provincial Æs with a hexastyle temple reverse.</li> <li>I did not have a loupe handy and was wearing only my weak reading glasses, so even the little I&#039;ve seen is a bit of a blur as yet.</li> <li>Several items are wrapped in paper with handwritten notes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dad mentioned something that indicated some of the coins might&#039;ve once been owned by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" rel="nofollow">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; That could be interesting indeed, if true. Particularly if there&#039;s anything to back up the provenance.&nbsp; Could be a stretch, but still... very intriguing.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have not yet encountered this particular portion of the collection since I haven&#039;t really taken anything out of the box yet.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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