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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8070545, member: 19463&quot;]I disagree.&nbsp; The photo shows five coins displayed and the rest heaped in a way that no one can tell if they are real or replicas.&nbsp; My wife went to the British Museum and came home with photos of &#039;exhibits&#039; of heaped up gold coins.&nbsp; Years ago before the Smithsonian tore down their extensive display of Ancients, there was a very nice aureus of Septimius Severus glued to a board so you could see the obverse.&nbsp; When our club got a behind the scenes tour, I asked what the reverse was.&nbsp; No one who worked there had any way of finding out.&nbsp; The exhibit had been there for years before any of them were there.&nbsp; In my opinion, responsible museum work is the publication of photos of the collection online as is being done by the BM and BnF.&nbsp; Heaps of coins and coins glued into position is grandstanding.&nbsp; People not interested in coins don&#039;t care and people who care about coins don&#039;t need to see piles.&nbsp; If the coins in question were previously unknown, I would have expected them to be taken by the government when they were reviewed rather than trying afterward to buy them from the finders.&nbsp;&nbsp; Spending money to buy yet another pile of coins to display in yet another local museum does not seem necessary.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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