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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 699566, member: 19456&quot;]I think Ancients are pretty cool, no matter how you look at them. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My love of history is what drives me to collect coins and currency. I especially love ancient history. It just naturally goes togther, like milk and cookies <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve always loved history, but it wasn&#039;t until recently that I really got into it big time. I would say around 2006 or 2007. Then, I discovered Numismatics, and...WOW! I can actually own and hold a piece of that history in my hand. It&#039;s incredible. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ancient Rome is my favorite time in history to read about and study. I will never get to Rome, despite my Italian heritage, as I am afraid of heights, and boats aren&#039;t much higher on my list of likes. And, even if I could get there, hundreds, thousands of years have passed and it would not be the same, as seeing the city in it&#039;s spendor. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A Roman statue, how much does that cost? Lots. And where would I put it? No where. But a Roman coin...well...I can get them reasonably, and I can get a lot of them, and they won&#039;t take up much space. They are tangible links to the past, perhaps even MY past (we will never know, as no records were kept in Italy from the fall of the Roman civilization until the 1700s) and I can study them at my leasure. I can hold them in my hand, and it transports me back to the times I can only read about and wonder about. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So...those are my thoughts on Roman coins. While that holds true for most ancients, I would suppose, I am more drawn to Roman times then any other, although I do have a difinitive interest in other areas of the ancient world. (After Rome, then come Greece in the ancient areas I am interested in...though Greek is one of the few cultures NOT represented in my gene pool!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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