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do these coins have any value to them?
Their monetary value is minimal. A dealer might even decline to take them.
There are intertwined reasons for this. To begin with, their state of preservation is not all that might be desired. even though the two I talked about earlier aren't by any means terrible and at least they are good enough to identify (I and probably everybody else here have seen piles of these that have been reduced to corroded, unreadable slugs). As counterintuitive as it may seem, many really nice examples do exist though, first because many millions were made, and second, on account of many extant today being recovered from hoards that sometimes never circulated.
The value here is having such a historical artifact in your hands. What else can you own that someone in the Roman Empire of 1,700 years ago made and used? So by no means would I discard them.
Colligo ergo sum
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Posted 05/10/2018 1:19 pm
