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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2765126, member: 83845&quot;]I would perfer not to buy ex jewelry coins for my collection and you make a good point that I tend to agree with... however (devils advocate alert) some of the coins were turned into jewelry during the late empire and were already centuries old at the time. So for instance you might have an aureus of Hadrian on the same necklace with Theodosius etc. and this doesn&#039;t ruin the history for <i>us.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>My point is that one or two coins used as jewelry as long as they are artfully done and well cared for like the above pieces doesn&#039;t necessarily ruin thier history for posterity. We all still love our ex jewelry coins and maybe they wouldn&#039;t have survived otherwise. Here is one of mine I think might be ex jewelry.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]636373[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, consider the Theatre of Marcellus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]636372[/ATTACH] </p><p>Do I wish that all Roman ruins where converted to renaissance palaces? Absolutely not, but this ONE is pretty interesting.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Who knows, in 500 years someone might say &quot;this was worn by a real American just before the *blank* happened.&quot;... I don&#039;t know, worth thinking about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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