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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2679653, member: 83956&quot;]Here are a few pix from that Palazzo Massimo lower floor. Lots of YouTube videos of the museum don’t even include this floor. I suspect most just skip it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mediocre pix illustrate why, allegedly, museums don’t particularly like to handle coins. Coins are small, have two sides, and are hard to make accessible for viewing without also making them accessible to theft.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]598750[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]598751[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]598752[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s a video I found that shows some features of the lower floor, albeit quickly. (Sorry for the (ahem) anatomically correct preview image.) The coin &quot;tour&quot; starts at 43:30 of the video. I think it’s narrated in modern Greek (?) There’s also a cool wall relief showing the processes of a roman mint, but the relief looks modern, though imitating an ancient style.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]yxbzJWSWYq0[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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