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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8208044, member: 110350&quot;]Even with ancient coin collecting historically allowed, I remember reading that there are an estimated 10 million uncatalogued ancient coins in the basements of museums in Rome and Naples alone -- many of which have probably been sitting there for a century or more. I suggest that if ancient coin collecting had been banned all these years, there would be tens of millions of additional coins sitting in museums around the world. And only a tiny percentage of those museums would have made the effort to examine and catalogue their coins, let alone make images of them publicly available for study. Furthermore, it&#039;s not primarily archaeologists who&#039;ve contributed to the knowledge we have about ancient coins: without private collectors and their research, we wouldn&#039;t know all that much more than people did 100 years ago. Yes, university academics have authored many of the most famous ancient coin catalogues, but a lot of them historically were collectors as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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