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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2567674, member: 76194&quot;]I collect because:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]554956[/ATTACH]</p><p>Bela IV of Hungary</p><p><br /></p><p>It is awesome to own coins of famous and colorful rulers, like this coin of Bela IV of Hungary, one of the most famous and important kings of Medieval Eastern Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]554958[/ATTACH] </p><p>Bohemond III</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect because it is cool to hold in my bare hands coins that people were using during key moments in history...like this coin from the Principality of Antioch, from the time of the Crusades. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]554959[/ATTACH] </p><p>Plautilla</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect because it is incredible to own coins commemorating events and cultures that have long passed into obscurity through the passage of millennia after millennia. Imagine what the world was like nearly 2000 years ago when this coin was fresh off the Roman mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]554961[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cherronesos lion</p><p><br /></p><p>And I collect ancients because modern coins can&#039;t approach the beauty and mystery of coins whose dies were hand carved, and whose blanks were hand struck over two millennia ago by skilled celators, and whose works of art can still be appreciated 2,400+ years later in the form of the coins they left behind for us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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