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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 2346559, member: 74968&quot;]Hi all, I thought I would tell a little story about sharing the love for ancient coins. A few months ago I contacted someone in the Classics department at the university where I teach. I asked him if he might know if any of his colleagues might want me to bring a set of the 12 Caesars in silver into the class and have the students handle the coins. The answer was yes and today I was in a 3rd year Roman Empire class showing and discussing the coins. It was only for about 15 minutes but I had lots of fun. I took the coins from their flips and passed them around. Some had a hard time believing that they were holding a 2000 year old piece of history in their hands. The Professor was discussing Nero before I started talking about the coins and it was really neat to show them Nero on a coin. They were familiar with Suetonius and they seem to like seeing portraits of the historical figures they had studied. There were many questions such as &quot;Are these real?&quot; , &quot;Are these hard to find?&quot; &quot;Are these expensive?&quot;, and &quot;What were these used for?&quot;. I did my best to answer their questions and had a wonderful time doing it. It was so nice to take my coins out of the house and share them with people who were genuinely interested. I told them that many ancient coins are inexpensive, and they asked me where they could find coins for themselves. I made my suggestions and noticed that at the end of the class they were looking up sites on their phones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I had a wonderful time today and just wanted to share my experience with my forum friends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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