Well an estimated 30,000 to 60,000 were pounded out. So yeah , I guess Alexander could of maybe touched it.... Or not.
A few seconds on a wire wheel would shine that right up!
“Journal of Alexander the Great” by Henry Livingston (1793)
New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Journal of an Asiatic Expedition
Vol. IV No. II; Feb 1793; p.98; by R
I love this journal. Henry starts it out by finding the journal in a trunk in the attic, which is SO Sherlock Holmes.
It’s almost Henry Livingston time so this came to mind. My big interview this year was for Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast *Revisionist History*. Rather depressing as his exec producer wasn’t a Henry believer, so will be curious to know how kind the podcast will be to our research.
The other interview request was very strange. They wanted to know how a different Livingston was likely to have conversed with Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831. As if I’d have the faintest notion. I pointed them to Princeton and Yale archives.
I have a bronze coin from Ptolemy I Soter. It has Ptolemy’s own mint mark on it and was probably minted during the War of the Sucessors about 305 BC or so. The coins were minted to pay Ptolemy’s troops, so it’s safe to assume that while the coin was for certain never held by Alexander. It was first held by one of his men. A very small and insignificant piece of history, but it’s awesome to see the years staring back out of your hand.