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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2238101, member: 19463&quot;]Displaying coins in a museum requires some really hard choices to overcome the fact that coins have two sides.&nbsp; I once visited the Smithsonian in Washington DC when they had a large display of ancients (now taken down) and saw an aureus of Septimius Severus.&nbsp; I visited the behind the scenes area (could be arranged back then) and was shown coins not on display.&nbsp; I asked what the reverse was on the aureus and was told that no one still there had seen it since it was glued to that board long ago.&nbsp; I understand they sent the coins to the ANS in NYC but do not know if that coin was ever removed from the glue. </p><p>I would like to see displays like Bude include plaster casts of the hidden side.&nbsp; Of course some museums leave the coins in the vault and show plaster of both sides. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bude has several incuse reverse Italian coins but they always seem to put the obverse up so you can&#039;t see the reverse.&nbsp; The do show a lot of reverses of coins which is a lot better than always putting the obverse up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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