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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3828163, member: 99456&quot;]For me the glued tags are the most interesting element of your coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; They give a glimpse into past practices of collectors that we can also read about in books like this one from Spink 1903:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Roman Coins</b>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029779877/page/n5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029779877/page/n5" rel="nofollow">Elementary Manual</a> by&nbsp; Francesco Gnecchi, translated by Alfred Watson Hands</p><p><br /></p><p>This sentence shows us that it was at least common enough to label coins, as yours are labeled above, that the author felt the need to comment <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029779877/page/n21" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029779877/page/n21" rel="nofollow">on page 15</a> (in chapter VII on &quot;<b><i>Arrangement of Coins in the Cabinet</i></b>&quot;):</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>&quot;Each coin placed in a cabinet ought to have its own number, as for instance on the accession list of a library, and as for this number, it should not be written on the coin itself, but on a small round card placed under the coins.&quot; </i></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The opening chapters of the book are especially enjoyable and surprising for both their relevance and the glimpse into a world of 1903, archaic in expression and thinking to a reader in 2019 e.g.</p><ul> <li><font size="4"><i>&quot;When, tired of work, weary of society, worried by business, the collector withdraws into his room; he finds there the most pleasant rest in his favorite occupation which he prefers to idleness<font size="4"><i>&quot;</i></font></i></font></li> <li><font size="4"><i><font size="4"><i>&quot;Just as the unmarried man feels in his old age the want of a good wife who renders him in the last days of his life the comfort of affection and of old memories, so he who was not a collector in his youth cannot experience in his old age the satisfaction of reviving memories of a life-time among these old and faithful friends&quot;</i></font></i></font></li> <li><font size="4"><i><font size="4"><i>&quot;The first collectors did not lay much stress on the state of preservation of their specimens, to which in the present day, very great, and I might say excessive importance, is attached.&quot;</i></font></i></font></li> <li><font size="4"><i>&quot;Among a hundred individuals who begin to collect one can count on ninety at least setting to work on a general collection, and that because nearly all are ignorant of the vastness of the material before them.&quot;</i></font></li> <li><font size="4"><i>&quot;Forgers of gold and silver Roman coins, who swarm now as of old, no longer give themselves the trouble to reduce their forgeries to reasonable appearance of wear, as it is recounted that the famous forger Becker user to do&quot;</i></font></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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