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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1565382, member: 26302&quot;]I collect all of them sir, the three great centers of coin invention, Greece, China, and India. While I love your idea that too much credit is given to the greeks as the &quot;inventors&quot; of coinage, (they were, but not the only ones), I do believe the Greek coins are rightly viewed as the most beautiful. Chinese and Indian coins were more &quot;industrial&quot;, more tailored for ease of day to day use, while Greek coins very much were used as propaganda for their cities and as such artistry was highly valued. Some engravers actually made their living going to different cities to cut beautiful dies, and were fairly famous artists. Indian and Chinese coins simply did not use coins this way, so no effort for artistry was given, (well not &quot;no&quot; artistry, the chinese were extremely concerned with balancing a coin, I mean here more &quot;pictorial artistry&quot;).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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