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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 18946136, member: 110226"]I wholeheartedly agree. Art, in its various forms, reflects the society and culture that produces it. There's a wide range of opinions on what constitutes beauty and aesthetics; there are really no hard or fast rules here, but instead our opinions. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ancients have a quality that distinctively separates them from more modern coins. As handmade, hammered coins produced at a time when myths had currency and human civilization was making strides in science and what we would call the humanities (art, music, drama, literature, history, philosophy, etc.), the coinage produced often paralleled these advances. The results can often be stunning, as with the decadrachms of Syracuse, but also with everyday bronze coinage. These qualities, along with the history that accompanies each coin makes the collecting of ancients so rewarding, in my view.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 18946136, member: 110226"]I wholeheartedly agree. Art, in its various forms, reflects the society and culture that produces it. There's a wide range of opinions on what constitutes beauty and aesthetics; there are really no hard or fast rules here, but instead our opinions. Ancients have a quality that distinctively separates them from more modern coins. As handmade, hammered coins produced at a time when myths had currency and human civilization was making strides in science and what we would call the humanities (art, music, drama, literature, history, philosophy, etc.), the coinage produced often paralleled these advances. The results can often be stunning, as with the decadrachms of Syracuse, but also with everyday bronze coinage. These qualities, along with the history that accompanies each coin makes the collecting of ancients so rewarding, in my view.[/QUOTE]
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