   coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender. coins of interest to collectors often include those that circulated for only a brief time, coins with mint errors and especially beautiful or historically significant pieces. coin collecting can be differentiated from numismatics in that the latter is the systematic study of currency. though closely related, the two disciplines are not necessarily the same. a numismatist may or may not be a coin collector, and vice versa. ==history== people have hoarded coins for their bullion value for as long as coins have been minted. however, the collection of coins for their artistic value was a later development. evidence from the archaeological and historical record of ancient rome and medieval mesopotamiawww.britannica.com. retrieved 14 december 2010. quote: "the nestorian scholars and artisans who served the princes of the jazira (mesopotamia, now iraq, syria, and turkey) in the 12th and 13th centuries designed a magnificent series of coins with motifs based on ancient greek and roman issues. some of these so accurately render the details of the originals that even the inscriptions are faithfully repeated. others were modified in intriguing ways. [...] the great variety and the sophisticated use of these images reveal the existence of well-studied collections." indicates that coins were collected and catalogued by scholars and state treasuries. it also seems probable that individual citizens collected old, exotic or commemorative coins as an affordable, portable form of art. according to suetonius in his de vita caesarum (the lives of the twelve caesars), written in the first century ce, the emperor augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.tranquillus, c. suetonius, the lives of the twelve caesars, (1 ce) section lxxv, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6387/6387.txt retrieved 23 august 2009 contemporary coin collecting and appreciation began around the fourteenth century. during the renaissance, it became a fad among some members of the privileged classes, especially kings and queens. the italian scholar and poet [
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