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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3916511, member: 72790"]As I was going through part of my collection today, admiring, wondering and reminiscing, I recalled something I either read or heard many decades ago from some source I can no longer pinpoint. The speaker, or writer, was telling the collectors of coins to keep something in mind. We really are not the owners of our coins. We are their custodians for a period of time, in some cases for only a brief period of their existence. What that person seemed to be saying is that we must carefully guard our coins from the ravishes of time. They have survived centuries of threats to their existence, melting pots, barbarian destruction , buried in earth and under the sea. Handled by untold generations, spent, wagered, bribed, stolen, invested and squandered, they have somehow remained and are now in our hands. They are entrusted to our care, for a while, until they pass on to some other conservator of antiquities and so on, hopefully to the end of time, as a lasting memorial to peoples long gone from this earth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked out a few of my coins pictured here as ones I hope will survive long after they pass from my care. Not especially rare, but evocative of those who have gone before us and may have left nothing of themselves, except for the coins they handled. Perhaps you have some like them, too, that you would share with us</p><p><br /></p><p>The first if a lifetime issue Tetradrachma of Alexander the Great It is a variant of Sear 6713 (I think) and Price 6 and weighs 17.1 grams. The second is a Denarius of the Roman Republic with Pietas on the obverse from circa 107 BC. It is Sear 185, Syd 56T and weighs 3.9 grams. The third is a Solidus of Emperor Leo I from about 465 AD. It is Sear 4233 (1988 edition) and weighs 4.45 grams. The last is a silvered Follis of Emperor Diocletian honoring the "Genius" of the Roman people from circa 300 AD. It is Sear3533 and weighs 8.4 grams. If you too have some fetching coins you are taking care of for a while, please share them with us.[ATTACH=full]1032310[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1032311[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 3916511, member: 72790"]As I was going through part of my collection today, admiring, wondering and reminiscing, I recalled something I either read or heard many decades ago from some source I can no longer pinpoint. The speaker, or writer, was telling the collectors of coins to keep something in mind. We really are not the owners of our coins. We are their custodians for a period of time, in some cases for only a brief period of their existence. What that person seemed to be saying is that we must carefully guard our coins from the ravishes of time. They have survived centuries of threats to their existence, melting pots, barbarian destruction , buried in earth and under the sea. Handled by untold generations, spent, wagered, bribed, stolen, invested and squandered, they have somehow remained and are now in our hands. They are entrusted to our care, for a while, until they pass on to some other conservator of antiquities and so on, hopefully to the end of time, as a lasting memorial to peoples long gone from this earth. I picked out a few of my coins pictured here as ones I hope will survive long after they pass from my care. Not especially rare, but evocative of those who have gone before us and may have left nothing of themselves, except for the coins they handled. Perhaps you have some like them, too, that you would share with us The first if a lifetime issue Tetradrachma of Alexander the Great It is a variant of Sear 6713 (I think) and Price 6 and weighs 17.1 grams. The second is a Denarius of the Roman Republic with Pietas on the obverse from circa 107 BC. It is Sear 185, Syd 56T and weighs 3.9 grams. The third is a Solidus of Emperor Leo I from about 465 AD. It is Sear 4233 (1988 edition) and weighs 4.45 grams. The last is a silvered Follis of Emperor Diocletian honoring the "Genius" of the Roman people from circa 300 AD. It is Sear3533 and weighs 8.4 grams. If you too have some fetching coins you are taking care of for a while, please share them with us.[ATTACH=full]1032310[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1032311[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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