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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3270451, member: 95174&quot;]Museums don&#039;t really show coins , not in the way we would like. So no I don&#039;t think Ancient coins should <b>all</b> be in museums BUT I think they should know and document every coin found to shed more light on the past of the coin. Where it circulated, how common of a find is it, and with that information and more they can give us a more complete&nbsp; with that information our hobby would be stronger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a perfect example on what can be done with the right information in the right hands. A paper on the costs of things in the&nbsp; Byzantine Empire ( Mostly late.) It took a lot of information from various sources to put this together. It is also an interesting read because it tells you what your coin was worth and could purchase back in its day.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/1431390/Prices_and_wages_in_the_Byzantine_world_in_The_Economic_History_of_Byzantium_A._E._Laiou_ed._Washington_D.C._2002_ISBN_0-88402-288-9_vol._2_p._799-878" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/1431390/Prices_and_wages_in_the_Byzantine_world_in_The_Economic_History_of_Byzantium_A._E._Laiou_ed._Washington_D.C._2002_ISBN_0-88402-288-9_vol._2_p._799-878" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/1431390/Prices_and_wages_in_the_Byzantine_world_in_The_Economic_History_of_Byzantium_A._E._Laiou_ed._Washington_D.C._2002_ISBN_0-88402-288-9_vol._2_p._799-878</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If coins bypass the academics then we are leaving them with incomplete information, so the data to them must be more important than the object.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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