The Greek passion for coins, and for beautiful
coins at that, is well known and sometimes
misunderstood. For a long time this passion was
not shared by many of their most advanced
neighbours, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Etruscans,
Romans, because it was essentially a political
phenomenon, 'a piece of local vanity, patriotism
or advertisement with no far reaching
importance'
source: Finley (1973) 166: the quotation is from J. M. Keynes, A Treatise on
Money (London, 1930), i. 12.
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