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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3270154, member: 87200&quot;]I agree that certain specific extremely rare and high value pieces should be in museums, so long as they are prominently displayed. The Stanford Art Museum has a great collection of Ptolemies. At the school I attended (Berkeley) there was a large collection of Central Asian AR coins (Bukhara, Samarkand, etc,) that were kept in boxes in the basement of Kroeber Hall, which houses an archaeological&nbsp; and anthropological museum. So basically nobody knows about these coins unless they are taking grad school courses in numismatics or Central Asian history. (There was one numismatics class in the catalog) as they are inaccessible. To me, this seemed rather pointless at the time. In contrast, the National Museum in Amman, Jordan has a nice collection of Roman coins which is well displayed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins should be accessible or if not, they probably are better off in the hands of collectors who will appreciate them and probably offer better care.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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