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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Olisipo, post: 2522629, member: 75543&quot;]My experiences with friends and relatives fall in line with yours. If they have some interest in History they&#039;ll express awe at holding an object that old, but the intricacies of coin-lore bore them to death. Some get very excited at the idea of seeing Greek or Roman coins because they think they&#039;re super valuable, so their interest wanes quickly. My mother is convinced I&#039;m being swindled.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it all comes down to how much knowledge a person has on the particular time period you&#039;re collecting from. After all, to understand what makes a set of coins unique - why they get debased over time, why a certain deity shows up more under Emperor A than under Emperor Z, why they move from laurels to radiate crowns to diadems, etc - you have to know the history behind them, and that takes a lot of time disbursed in books and museums. Otherwise they&#039;re just lumps of metal with funny sketches on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Recently I got a relative to read Gibbon and he&#039;s already showing some interest in the Roman coins I have, asking me to explain the different designs and so forth. So I guess that&#039;s a possible approach to try if you want someone else to appreciate your collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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