Ancient Coins“The study of history is the best medicine for the mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and for your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.” Livy (Titus Livius), “The Early History of Rome”, (59 BC ~ AD 17) Why collect ancient coins? In a nutshell, the societies of Ancient Greece and Rome present a microcosm of all human experience, and the coins of these cultures are a direct link to the people that created them. The history of ancient Greece & Rome represents the longest continual record of human existence available, and it is arguably the fullest and most diversified record of what the human mind has ever been busy about.
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