[Chad N. Freud]

I so love ancient coins.
Have a few.
Not very many.
It is so meaningful, to me, to touch and turn over in your hand something that existed in the Roman Empire, B.C.

[hanamizu]

I so love ancient coins.

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My very first was a coin issued by the Emperor Phillip II (AD 249). I bought it an antique store in Wauconda, IL for something like $5. About the size of a quarter. Part of the wonder is imagining who touched it so many years ago. What it bought. If it could only tell you what it has experienced to get into my palm. I was hooked.

Many years later I got involved with a group called Ancient Coins in Education which provided my Jr High students with ancient coins at a cost of $3 or $4 per coin. They then researched who the emperor/empress on the coin was. I hoped that touching something well over 1000 years old would gobsmack them as it gobsmacked me. For some it did.