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I paid just under $75 for that one on Amazon, got it within 2 days. I would love to be able to afford something like this but that's merely fantasy at this point.
It's exactly those questions which make something like this so interesting to me. The hands it passed through and the circumstances over the passed 1700 years. My wife calls me a nerd, but she's the one constantly going to the libraryCDFingers wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:10 am Yes. Very cool. I wonder how many cups of mead that coin had bought over its lifetime.
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That, too is a piece of history I could easily lose hours in examining and imagining.CDFingers wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:18 am I have an 1894 m91 Finn captured Mosin-Nagant from the Sestroryetsk arsenal. Imagine the tales it could tell.
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I haven't yet taken the time to examine it in greater detail to see if I can translate any of the inscriptions but given the date range in which it was struck I doubt it was an emperor of any great import or note.highdesert wrote: Yes very nice. Do you know which emperor? That Nero coin is beautiful, very fine and it has the price to prove it.
Yup there were many Roman Emperors in the early Common Era especially in the 215-255 CE range. They probably didn't have time to create new dies and strike coins with an image of the new emperor, so used the old ones. Even in modern times, the UK still has currency and coins with Queen Elizabeth II's image, those with King Charles III will start going into circulation later this year.NonServiam wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:42 amThat, too is a piece of history I could easily lose hours in examining and imagining.CDFingers wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:18 am I have an 1894 m91 Finn captured Mosin-Nagant from the Sestroryetsk arsenal. Imagine the tales it could tell.
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I haven't yet taken the time to examine it in greater detail to see if I can translate any of the inscriptions but given the date range in which it was struck I doubt it was an emperor of any great import or note.highdesert wrote: Yes very nice. Do you know which emperor? That Nero coin is beautiful, very fine and it has the price to prove it.
Silver. Later variants were primarily copper with only a small amount of silver. Inflation was a bitch then, too.tonguengroover wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:39 am I have piles of copper pennies. hehe Thats neato. What metal is it?
Yes itâs an artifact from an interesting time in the Roman Empire; right at the beginning of the âCrisis of the Third century.â A very destabilized era.highdesert wrote:That's neat. Yes he was young and apparently died when he was 19, during the decaying years of the Roman Empire.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gordian-III
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