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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 676467, member: 19463&quot;]There are different views on such things but I doubt there have been many times in history when any one person was aware of all of the civilizations on earth up to that time. Today we have excellent communications and are discovering new information and new coins every year. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Ancients&quot; were never &quot;current&quot; issues. They spanned a period of a thousand years. First Greek to last Byzantine is 2000 years. It is said that Caesar Augustus collected some ancient (to him) Greek coins almost 500 years old in his day. That is like us collecting Ferdinand and Isabella. The Renaissance saw a wave of coin collecting amog the nobel class but their collections of a few thousand types were hardly complete. If we could figure out for sure who issued the very first coins, I suppose we could say they had a complete collection but after that, things get harder. Like you say: fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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