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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1595763, member: 112&quot;]Chris - coin collecting has truly been with us for a long, long, long, time. And yes it is documented. There are a great many books and papers written on coin collections, and when I say written I mean written by hand because that was the only form of writing there was. And these books and papers are 100% about about coin collections and no other subject. And there are far older documents where coin collecting is merely mentioned at some point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I can&#039;t give you exact dates for these documents because I have not studied them sufficiently to be able to do that off the top of my head. But to give you some kind of idea I can tell you this. Coin collecting was so important centuries ago that one of the first printed books, was a book about a coin collection. It was commissioned and&nbsp; published in 1511 by Margarethe Peutinger, complete with images of the coins. At least 1 copy of this book still survives today. It was sold at auction a few years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now just imagine, what does that tell you ? The very first printed book was the Bible in 1453. But here we have the people of the time expending the effort to write the book to begin with, and then spending the money to have that book actually printed, complete with pictures of the coins. In other words, the level of importance of coin collecting was such that it surpassed many, many other subjects thought to be important to mankind.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know about you, but that has always just astounded me !</p><p><br /></p><p>edit - </p><p><br /></p><p>To add to this, the first documented coin auction, was held in 1598 in Leiden, Netherlands.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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