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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Buffo Marinus, post: 3220685, member: 82880&quot;]Probably most of you are already familiar with the John Evelyn (1620-1706) quote on coin (&quot;medals&quot;) collecting. This is the first time I&#039;ve come across the quote. I thought it fully expressed, for me, why I find this hobby so fascinating...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Every one who is a lover of Antiquities, especially of Marbles and Inscriptions, may yet neither have the faculty to be at so vast a charge, or opportunity of Collecting them at so easy and tolerable an Expense, as he may of Medals... the most lasting and (give me leave to call them) vocal Monuments of Antiquity. Ancient coins, sharp and fresh as when they left the mint, may be quite cheap. Their symbolism is full and unimpaired:</p><p>they seem to have broken and worn out the very Teeth of Time, that devours and tears in pieces all things else,&quot; and they &quot;have ... outlasted the most ancient Records and transmitted to us the knowledge of a thousand useful things of twice a thousand years past.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>John Evelyn 1697[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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