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Offline mursik

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« on: October 25, 2011, 11:00:57 am »
It is an original coin? It rare? Interesting?

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Re: Help-2
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2011, 12:01:36 pm »
YES. NO. Up to you..

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Re: Help-2
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2011, 02:06:26 pm »
It is a dupondius of Marcus Aurelius, dated 171-174 ("IMP. VI"). Looks authentic.

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Re: Help-2
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2011, 02:35:44 pm »
Most coins are not rare and in this condition most coins are not very interesting.
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Re: Help-2
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2011, 03:36:18 pm »
...anyway it's a piece of History, 1833/1837 years old! :)

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Re: Help-2
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2011, 03:44:23 pm »
...anyway it's a piece of History, 1833/1837 years old! :)

Just that fact makes it interesting, in my opinion.
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Re: Help-2
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2011, 04:02:50 pm »
Is it interesting to you though, when you've seen hundreds in better condition? Or do you think it ought to be interesting to someone else?
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Re: Help-2
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2011, 04:49:16 pm »
Is it interesting to you though, when you've seen hundreds in better condition? Or do you think it ought to be interesting to someone else?

I think that anything that has survived that long, which is an artifact and the product of humans who lived so long before our own time is, by its very nature, interesting.
Of course, from a numismatic perspective, there are better examples and coins that to me are more interesting for a variety of reasons. However, I speak in general terms when I say that they all are interesting simply because of what they are, where they have been, and the overall historical mystique that surrounds them.
Eric Brock (1966 - 2011)

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Re: Help-2
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2011, 05:24:15 pm »
I have some worse and some much better, but I love them all. I have a hoarding habbit whene it comes to my little baby roman coins. I never want them to leave the house.
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Re: Help-2
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2011, 07:17:06 am »
I think before I die, I will take some of my slugier coins and bury them somewhere.  Maybe in a 1000 years someone will find them and try to figure out why the Romans were in Indiana

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« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2011, 03:36:58 pm »
I have been know to carry a few LRB coins with me when I head into the mountains and to drop them close to paths when I am fishing, hoping some kid will spot one when he is fishing or hiking also.  Makes it interesting for his Dad to explain.

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