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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TypeCoin971793, post: 3538136, member: 78244&quot;]I’ve found that buying coins with stories and being willing to tell the stories entices young people more than anything. I have many friends who had no interest in coins whatsoever because they had the age-old conception that it was all about filling the holes. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]940312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse is a depiction of Marcus Sergius. A description of Marcus Sergius is found in the seventh book of Pliny’ <i>Natural History</i>, published in AD 77:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Nobody - at least in my opinion - can rightly rank any man above Marcus Sergius, although his great-grandson Catiline shames his name. In his second campaign Sergius lost his right hand. In two campaigns he was woundedtwenty-three times, with the result that he had no use in either hand or either foot: only his spirit remained intact. Although disabled, Sergius served in many subsequent campaigns. He was twice captured by Hannibal - no ordinaryfoe- from whom twice he escaped, although kept in chains and shackles every day for twenty months. He fought fourtimes with only his left hand, while two horses he was riding were stabbed beneath him.</i></p><p><i>He had a right hand made of iron for him and, going into battle with this bound to his arm, raised the siege of Cremona, saved Placentia and captured twelve enemy camps Gaul - all of which exploits were confirmed by thespeech he made as praetor when his colleagues tried to debar him as infirm from the sacrifices. What piles of wreathshe would have amassed in the face of a different enemy!</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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