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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2855213, member: 32619&quot;]This thead is posted in Coin Chat so I would like to chime in a little...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have you considered ancient coins? It&#039;s something new to learn, you get to touch them, and they have super cool themes. Since you like silver, I&#039;m going to use the coin below to illustrate my point:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/jwt-166-silus-horseman.5658/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The above silver coin is called a denarius, slightly larger than a U.S. dime at 19mm, and it was minted 116-115 BC. This coin was minted to commemorate the heroic deeds of Marcus Sergius, who we see on the the reverse holding a severed head. I&#039;m going to let Roman historian Pliny explain why this guy is cool:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody - at least in my opinion - can rightly rank any man above Marcus Sergius, although his great-grandson Catiline shames his name. In his second campaign Sergius lost his right hand. In two campaigns he was wounded twenty-three times, with the result that he had no use in either hand or either foot: only his spirit remained intact. Although disabled, Sergius served in many subsequent campaigns. He was twice captured by Hannibal - no ordinary foe- from whom twice he escaped, although kept in chains and shackles every day for twenty months. He fought four times with only his left hand, while two horses he was riding were stabbed beneath him.</p><p><br /></p><p>He had a right hand made of iron for him and, going into battle with this bound to his arm, raised the siege of Cremona, saved Placentia and captured twelve enemy camps in Gaul - all of which exploits were confirmed by the speech he made as praetor when his colleagues tried to debar him as infirm from the sacrifices. What piles of wreaths he would have amassed in the face of a different enemy!</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Natural History, </i>Book 7 Chapter 28</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe ancient Greece might have something that interest you more?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/jwt-173-pergamon-cista-mystica.6290/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/jwt-172-larissa-horse.6162/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are some threads going on right now in the ancient section for what kinds of coins you can expect for different amounts, should you be interested.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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