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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prestoninanus, post: 684437, member: 20205&quot;]I&#039;ve always hated this attitude by certain archeologists and museum officials. It is a disgustingly elitist attitude that absolutely every historical artifact &quot;evar&quot; should be in a museum and ordinary people should not be allowed to own them.</p><p>&nbsp;It just wouldn&#039;t be possible to display every single ancient coin or artifact ever found. I can appreciate that finds ought and need to be catalogued and recorded to better increase our knowledge of the period of history they are from, but once this is done, I don&#039;t think its neccessary for museums to hoard them all in storerooms. Once the museums have retained an adequate sample, or items of particular rarity or significance, I think the rest ought to be sold to collectors. What many of them don&#039;t understand is that the ability of ordinary people to collect these ancient relics actually makes more people interested in learning about the period in history in which the coin they own was minted and used (I don&#039;t think I&#039;d ever have studied for a degree in history if my interest in the subject hadn&#039;t been piqued by my ability to have physical ownership of certain historical relics). Or maybe they do and don&#039;t care, because they rather like the idea of being a privilaged elite, I don&#039;t know. Either way, the attitude irritates me. Especially when they go to the extreme of believing that it would be better to destroy (!) coins and relics rather than allow them to exist and perpetuate a market for antiquities. In fact, I recall one female archeologist back in 2003 actually suggesting that Iraqi looters of antiquities ought to be gunned down by coalition forces to dissuade them from taking anything from archeolgical sites!! [/rant]</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhoo, this is interesting I definately wouldn&#039;t mind owning a few of these coins, especially given the historical context that research may uncover about the significance of the find...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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