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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3010780, member: 74282&quot;]There are written accounts describing some coins but those are a relatively small number and cannot necessarily be trusted. Instead, those who research ancient coins have to play to part of the crime scene investigator to a large degree, looking at the evidence we have now. The most reliable source is of course the archaeological evidence: individual coins and hoards found in the ground, though of course there are varying degrees of reliability based on whether the hoard or find report is on a fully documented dig, something found by a farmer and reported to the local authorities or perhaps a group of coins that come to market and are reported by the seller to be a hoard or a recent find. That said, some coins are rare enough to not have any documented examples from hoards or were simply not hoarded and we may not have hoard or find evidence for that exact type and in those cases we have to rely on evidence from similar coin and look at the physical properties of the coin itself. That said there are definitely some coins whose existence is disputed, for instance the <a href="https://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/VLPP/History/VLPP-History.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/VLPP/History/VLPP-History.htm" rel="nofollow">Constantine Pannonian Hat</a> bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as where these coins come from the vast majority on the market are metal detector finds, either of single coins or of hoards where the owner buried them(or lost a coin purse in some cases) and for one reason or another never retrieved them. Unfortunately most that come to market don&#039;t come with any information regarding the find context because the laws in many source countries declare every man-made object older than a certain age(generally a century or so) found in the ground property of the state, though the UK for instance has much more collector-friendly laws and as such it is possible to buy from some finders in the UK and get full info as to where a coin is found.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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