Reply #16: My Grand-dad used to collect coins,

[Guy_Montag]

after he died, before they were sold, I looked through them. He had coins from Roman onwards including crusader coins, European, North African & Middle Eastern. As each one passed through my hands I tried to think of who had owned them, lost them, stolen them, borrowed them, killed for them, died for them. Given them to their sons & daughters while lying on their deathbed. What they would have bought with them. It was quite weird.