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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Raymond Beracha, post: 1695711, member: 26854&quot;]I think you are trolling but I&#039;ll bite anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics#History_of_numismatics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics#History_of_numismatics" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics#History_of_numismatics</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A few relevant excerpts...</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Coin collecting may have existed in ancient times. Caesar <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" rel="nofollow">Augustus</a> gave &quot;coins of every device, including old pieces of the kings and foreign money&quot; as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia" rel="nofollow">Saturnalia</a> gifts.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch" rel="nofollow">Petrarch</a>, who wrote in a letter that he was often approached by vinediggers with old coins asking him to buy or to identify the ruler, is credited as the first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance" rel="nofollow">Renaissance</a> collector. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">Petrarch presented a collection of Roman coins to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" rel="nofollow">Emperor Charles IV</a> in 1355.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">The first book on coins was <i>De Asse et Partibus</i> (1514) by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Bud%C3%A9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Bud%C3%A9" rel="nofollow">Guillaume Budé</a>.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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