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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2372971, member: 19463&quot;]I visited a small coin shop last year and saw about 100-200 low grade late Roman coins in a bag with about 50 genuine Byzantine bronzes of the anonymous Christ types and four fake Tiberius &#039;Tribute Pennies&#039;.&nbsp; All had been the property of one person whose &#039;estate&#039; the shop had purchased.&nbsp; The Christ folles and the fakes were probably picked up over a period of time by the collector whose only other outing in ancients had been the lot of uncleaned that all turned out to be trash.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of all the coins I saw no fakes except for the TP&#039;s, no silver except for he TP&#039;s and no coins over AE3 size except those with well worn Christ portraits.&nbsp; The shop bought he bunch to get the collector&#039;s modern coins.&nbsp; I suspect there are many people who have collections of modern coins with a few Christian interest (real or fakes) thrown in.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are several books available on coins &quot;of the Bible&quot;.&nbsp; There are some that are obvious and some that require a bit more study to understand the link.&nbsp; The only ones that seem to carry a premium are the big three obvious ones (Widow&#039;s Mite, Tribute Penny and 30 Pieces of Silver) where the coin itself is mentioned.&nbsp; Types just associated with people mentioned in the Bible do not do nearly as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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