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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3381332, member: 19463&quot;]It makes no difference what I think since I will never again travel (done with that phase) but I am sickened by museums that consider the proper display of coins to be a pile.&nbsp; I know the coins are just junk that 99.9% of visitors spend less than a second viewing (the amount of time I spend on 99.9% of their other exhibits).&nbsp; The future use of museums will depend on their online presence.&nbsp; The BM has many coins online with half decent photos which makes me consider them the best in the world even though they display many piles.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago, the Smithsonian in DC had a nice display of ancient coins including a beautiful aureus of Septimius Severus which was glued to a board on the display.&nbsp; I asked the person in charge (when our club had a behind the scenes tour) what reverse was on that coin but discovered it had been there so long no current employee knew.&nbsp; I wonder what happened to it when they tore down the exhibit and gave the unwanted coins to the ANS. Museums make more from people who spend coins than from those who collect them.&nbsp; I do suspect that there is a record at the BM of every aureus in that heap.&nbsp; At least I prefer to think they bothered to make a note of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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