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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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These have been probably in a necklace together. The previous owner did some cleaning I think, looking at them. But overall a nice lot roman coins. Could it be ancient jewelery or are the holes to nice for that?   |
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 United States
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Moderate ovaling on the holes suggests to me that it has been worn for some time, but I think impossible to say if that means these were drilled in the 1940s or 340s.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice coins, I'd guess they were part of a necklace, no clue as to time period the holes were made.
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11/13/2022 08:51 am
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United Kingdom
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I would guess it wasn't turned into a necklace by the Romans. The Victorians were keen on turning Roman coins into necklaces, so I would bet on them. Anyone else from the Saxons onwards might've done it, but I think they were more likely to use them as pendants (one or two coins with a hole at the top). I don't know if they would've strung a lot of coins together. Presumably, the chances of them all staying together suggests a modern creation.
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Australia
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I notice that there are 10 of them. There is a Bible story about a woman who owned ten silver coins, and lost one (Luke 15:8-10). Biblical scholars assume in such a scenario for a typical lower-class woman in the ancient Middle East, such coins would have been strung together into a headpiece to be worn for an ornament, rather than kept in a purse as money. So I would assume this is a (modern) attempt at recreating that woman's headpiece of 10 silver coins.
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Pillar of the Community
 Netherlands
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Very interesting story Sap. I have not heard of this before. It makes a even better story like this.
Also many thanks for all other replies in this post regarding the holes in these coins.
I was curious how did the victorians get the roman coins and its association was pure biblical?
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Uruguay
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Very nice! I have gifted/auctioned the drilled coins I got in my hands, but were coins from around 1900s. These I would keep them anyway!
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Australia
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I was curious how did the victorians get the roman coins and its association was pure biblical? There were, of course, no metal detectors in the Victorian era; ancient coins were found purely by accident, when a farmer ploughed their field, or when a new railway cutting happened to smash through a buried coin hoard. These ten coins, of course, all date form long after the Biblical period - they are coins from the late second and early third centuries. As such, they have no direct authentic "Biblical" connection. But the Victorians wouldn't have let a minor anachronism like that get in the way of them turning antiques into jewellery. It's also possible at least some of them are replicas. That first one, at top left, looks the most suspicious. Very grainy-looking, with erratic wear. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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Thanks Sap, I already thought more or less the same but hoped for something I did not expect at all haha.
About the coins self they are cleaned thorough which does not help in there looks. But I understand what you mean. It is often not nice to hear someone has doubts about your coins hehe. However if a few might be then the chance is that these also are 100+ years old. When so it is purely to make the chain complete rather then its value I guess, is it not? Using both good and bad coins making 2 holes in them is interesting.
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