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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 2799371, member: 85693"]Glad this has been of interest. As with most exhibitions and a lot of museum sites, the coin information sometimes seems a bit less than a collector would like. </p><p><br /></p><p>Doug's questions are good ones. But I'm not getting 404 dead links - when I click the coin photos, I get a page that has this (among other information) about skeleton 27, a pregnant woman found with a lot of silver and gold:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>The Coins Found with Skeleton 27</b></font></p><p><img src="http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/oplontis-leisure-and-luxury/thumbs/coin8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>"Among the human remains in room 10 were those of a pregnant woman, now known as skeleton 27, who possessed one of the largest collections of coins ever found in the Vesuvian region, worth 10,952 sesterces. A single one of her gold coins was worth enough to support an adult with the basic necessities of life for almost a year. One part of Skeleton 27’s stash of coins was in a small wooden box, alongside pieces of silver and jewelry. The second part was held in a purse, found on her chest. Many of the silver coins are worn, indicating that they had been in circulation for some time."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/oplontis-leisure-and-luxury/luxury.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/oplontis-leisure-and-luxury/luxury.php" rel="nofollow">http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/oplontis-leisure-and-luxury/luxury.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Clicking on the "view image" at the bottom left pulls up the Skeleton 27 coins (the same coins as on the original page, but all together in one image). This is still not very much information, at least for a collector. And I wish the photos were bigger & better...</p><p><br /></p><p>And where's the bronze? You'd think poorer folks would want to take some along with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 2799371, member: 85693"]Glad this has been of interest. As with most exhibitions and a lot of museum sites, the coin information sometimes seems a bit less than a collector would like. Doug's questions are good ones. But I'm not getting 404 dead links - when I click the coin photos, I get a page that has this (among other information) about skeleton 27, a pregnant woman found with a lot of silver and gold: [SIZE=3][B]The Coins Found with Skeleton 27[/B][/SIZE] [IMG]http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/oplontis-leisure-and-luxury/thumbs/coin8.jpg[/IMG] "Among the human remains in room 10 were those of a pregnant woman, now known as skeleton 27, who possessed one of the largest collections of coins ever found in the Vesuvian region, worth 10,952 sesterces. A single one of her gold coins was worth enough to support an adult with the basic necessities of life for almost a year. One part of Skeleton 27’s stash of coins was in a small wooden box, alongside pieces of silver and jewelry. The second part was held in a purse, found on her chest. Many of the silver coins are worn, indicating that they had been in circulation for some time." [url]http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/oplontis-leisure-and-luxury/luxury.php[/url] Clicking on the "view image" at the bottom left pulls up the Skeleton 27 coins (the same coins as on the original page, but all together in one image). This is still not very much information, at least for a collector. And I wish the photos were bigger & better... And where's the bronze? You'd think poorer folks would want to take some along with them.[/QUOTE]
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