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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8225417, member: 115909&quot;]Does anyone happen to know if it’s possible for scientists to determine where the copper/silver/gold in a coin was mined? Or at least an approximate location?</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be so cool if a tiny (unnoticeable to the eye) bit of metal from a coin could be analyzed and a specific origin could be determined of exactly where the metal was mined.</p><p><br /></p><p>I imagine for some coins like the Athenian tetradrachm it wouldn’t really matter since the vast majority of silver came from the Mines of Laurion.</p><p><br /></p><p>But for Ancient Roman coins it would be awesome to see where in the Empire a coin’s metal was originally mined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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