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To: blam

Another Roman coin? If I lost money like a Roman I’d be bankrupt. Maybe they just did this to mess with our heads when we dug this stuff up. ;-)


21 posted on 04/14/2008 5:00:15 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon; Fred Nerks
"Another Roman coin? If I lost money like a Roman I’d be bankrupt. Maybe they just did this to mess with our heads when we dug this stuff up. ;-)"

I see what you Mean:

Ancients In America

Coins:

* Roman coins have been found in Venezuela and Maine.
* Roman coins were found in Texas at the bottom of an Indian mound at Round Rock. The mound is dated at approximately 800 AD.
* In 1957 by a small boy found a coin in a field near Phenix City, Alabama, from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, and dating from 490 B.C.
* In the town of Heavener, Oklahoma, another out-of-place coin was found in 1976. Experts identified it as a bronze tetradrachm originally struck in Antioch, Syria in 63 A.D. and bearing the profile of the emperor Nero.
* In 1882, a farmer in Cass County, Illinois picked up bronze coin later identified as a coin of Antiochus IV, one of the kings of Syria who reigned from 175 B.C. to 164 B.C., and who is mentioned in the Bible.

26 posted on 04/15/2008 6:50:15 AM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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