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2 posted on 12/17/2007 10:04:10 PM PST by coinsedge
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While hoarding coins due to their value goes back to the beginning of coinage, collecting coins as pieces of art was a later development. Known as the "Hobby of Kings", modern coin collecting is generally believed to have begun in the fourteenth century with the Italian scholar and poet Petrarch. Notes of Roman emperors having coin collections have also been found, but it remains somewhat unclear whether these coins were studied, considered curiosities or merely hoarded.

3 posted on 12/17/2007 11:47:44 PM PST by coinsedge
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