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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eyestrain, post: 1018671, member: 24213&quot;]&quot;...his troops proclaimed him emperor, and the coins were his Facebook page.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>*groan* Anyway, moving on...</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first article I&#039;ve read about the Frome hoard that comes right out and says they want to keep the entire hoard of 52 thousand coins together in one place if they can raise the money to buy it outright. That sucks from a collector&#039;s point of view, and even from a museum point of view I have to wonder what the point is. The visiting public won&#039;t be getting a look at all of them, they&#039;ll never have every coin on display, and they admit that 11 thousand in the find can&#039;t even be identified. I expect if they keep the hoard intact, most of them will end up filed away in backroom drawers, never to be seen again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sure, cherry pick the rarities and put them in museums, but all the common ones as well? Really?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d like to know what the other ancient collectors here think about the possibility of the entire Frome hoard never making it to market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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