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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2168848, member: 71234&quot;]In Europe we do have the feeling that all you have to do is kick a clod of earth and some ancient&nbsp; coin will&nbsp; appear . There have been been many detector finds of hoards and single items that have changed the market in the last&nbsp; 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a small but significant probability&nbsp; that in the acre or so of my back garden, some old coin lies undiscovered. If I suspected an aureus, I &#039;d be scanning every inch, for routine bronze, not worth the trouble.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will tell you a strange thing about ancient coins in Europe.</p><p>I was in a Roman temple in Istria, admiring the portraits in stone of whoever modeled for the sacred portraits two millenia ago.&nbsp; A few hours later I was on a bus&nbsp; looking at that very woman, or her descendant, from 2000 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>It made me think, just how close&nbsp; parts of Europe are in many respects to the times of the coins you talk about. That past is all around us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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