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To: VadeRetro

Coin of Boudica's Icini Tribe, circa 60 A.D.
61 posted on 09/21/2003 10:34:11 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
Very nice! We tend to think of that time and place as very primitive, no doubt with some kind of a barter economy. That may have been largely true, but that finely worked coin shows it wasn't entirely so at all.
62 posted on 09/21/2003 4:13:45 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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