THROWING COINS AWAY Publique Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 3, January 18, 2004, Article 17
THROWING COINS AWAY
Regarding the question about museums discarding ancient
coins, Bob Leonard writes: "When I was researching cut
bronze coins in the ancient Near East in August 1991, I
contacted Dr. Brooks Levy at Princeton to obtain casts of
Waage, Antioch On-The-Orontes IV, Part Two: Greek,
Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders' Coins (Princeton, 1952)
nos. 360 and 361, groups of halved bronze coins of Roman
Antioch. I was told that these coins--which should have
been preserved with the other finds--could not be located
and had apparently been discarded. While these were
fragments of coins, and corroded as well, it was a great loss
to scholarship that they were not properly conserved and
retained."- 2004-01-18
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