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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7350032, member: 75143&quot;]I feel that we can easily apply modern-day sentiment to this. The vast majority of common folk do not collect coins.</p><p>However, even the layfolk will almost always set aside something that they deem unusual - half dollars, dollar coins, 2 dollar bills, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people, though they aren&#039;t collectors, will at least look at the coins. If they happen to get a nickel that has a strange buffalo on the back, I can almost guarantee they would keep it, and acknowledge that it&#039;s a rare coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>They probably wouldn&#039;t start and go out hunting for old/rare coins, but they would recognize it was unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that ancients would have done a similar thing. If you&#039;re living in Byzantine times and all of a sudden a sestertius or as popped into your till, if you could afford to keep it, you probably would just as a curio.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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