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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Margolis, post: 2919485, member: 88401&quot;]It would be an interesting study, maybe some here on CT have read about lines of decent of ancients in their numismatic literature? Like to trace the ownership ancestry or provenance so to speak, of a single RR denarius throughout the many centuries. What adventures it could reveal to us. I have very little, actually no expertise on that part of the science of numismatics that might include the history of when and why people started collecting coins from the past. So exploring the line or trajectory of an ancient coin historically through human hands: under a floorboard, into the ground, back into the forge under a new dynasty, into a museum or a private collection or into a long continued circulation like popular denarii or tets of Alexander or the Ptolemies. This is an intriguing story-line in itself. I guess there must be books about this you all here at CT know about? It would be interesting to know if any of the later Roman emperors collected or cherished any of the coins minted by the early Caesars. In the same way that later English royalty collected coinage of their earlier kings and queens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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