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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3162905, member: 96898"]I've been asking myself exactly the same thing during a couple of recent museum visits. Opinions will vary depending on taste, but if you would like to get a good look at the single coins on exhibit, the "heap display" can be quite frustrating. At the same time, it seems to be fashionable among curators at the moment, probably because it looks more spectacular to most museum visitors than tidy rows of single coins. Thus, I was positively surprised a couple of weeks ago when I was at the museum and excavation site of Empúries in Catalonia (the westernmost Greek colony discovered so far as well as the main Roman bridgehead in Iberia during the 2nd Punic War – very much worth a visit!) and saw how they display their hoard finds, for example, this small hoard of Republican denarii (ca. 74 BC): [ATTACH=full]812434[/ATTACH] A good obverse and reverse of each type of coin in the hoard is on single display and can be studied closely, while the rest is displayed in the type of aesthetically pleasing heap curators and museum visitors not interested in numismatics appear to like. To me, that seems like a good middle ground...[/QUOTE]