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To: Tax-chick; SunkenCiv

coin collectors take note.

8 posted on 04/29/2016 7:50:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

To: BenLurkin; Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...

Thanks BenLurkin and Red Badger.

49 posted on 04/29/2016 9:41:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)

coin collectors take note.

Note that they got carried there in sacks or chests, but are in mint condition without the wear and tear associated with banging against each other while being bounced on donkey back or unsprung wooden wheeled carts over hundreds of miles of Roman cobblestone roads.

Note that they don't show wear from being used in commerce, being passed from hand to hand, being slid across rough tabletops, being carried in a purse.

Note that the older coins show the emperors wearing spiked headgear (Not worn until the mid 200's)

Caveat emptor

63 posted on 04/29/2016 10:39:03 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)

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