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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2577852, member: 39&quot;]One time I visited a city around here with an American friend of mine, and at one point mentioned that &quot;this church&quot; (Gothic Revival style) was &quot;not really old&quot;. In the sense of not medieval but built roughly 100 years ago. A little later, when she was back in the US, she heard her priest talk about some carpet at the church that needed to be replaced because &quot;it is ancient!&quot; ... Similarly, for collectors of ancients anything not made in the past 50 years or so seems to be ancient. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting coin though! A few weeks ago I was in Paris, and also visited the church (basilique) in Saint-Denis, with the royal tombs. There they were too, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.</p><p><br /></p><p>Don&#039;t have my coins here, but while do not collect such ancient <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> pieces, I did get a couple of &quot;Berg&quot; coins (Jülich-Kleve-Berg, Grand Duchy of Berg), issued by Max Joseph but also Joachim Murat. Once Prussia, as a winner of the war, swallowed Berg, the times of those coins were over ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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