Overnight, your Ancient Coin Collection becomes WORTHLESS

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  1. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    To me, that headline is not crazy (LOL, but great timing!) :D
    Hawaii has a high altitude mountain, that folks have been skiing and snowboarding Mount Kea for years. Coupled with being surrounded with the Pacific; humidity off the ocean and high winds could easily make the conditions for a blizzard. Yeah, everyone thinks of a perfect tropical condition when in Hawaii, but snowing in the high altitudes have been happening for aeons.
     
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  3. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    LOL, only by embracing BLOCKHEAD Philosophy would people know reality!
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  4. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

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  5. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Agreed...really touches today's "thinking".
    But, read about Julius Caesar... justifying the slaughter of the Celts / Gaul... well over 2million people killed at a whim... Perhaps one of the greatest percentage of Human population killed off for his personal glory.
     
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  6. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    Imagine, had Hannibal been able to finish off the RR after Cannae/ how many tens of millions of lives would have been saved from the brutality of what was to come.
     
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  7. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Duality is the essence of the "ten thousand things." If there are smart people, there must be stupid, or there is no scale. You want beauty? There must be ugliness. Good? Evil. Metaphysical? Empirical. Every coin has an obverse and reverse...
     
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  8. Voulgaroktonou

    Voulgaroktonou Well-Known Member

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  9. MarcosX

    MarcosX Active Member

    the pendulum is swinging in the wrong direction right now
     
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  10. Cachecoins

    Cachecoins Historia Moneta

    Is this sarcasm or are you saying Hannibal and Carthage was kinder and more gentle.
     
  11. Cachecoins

    Cachecoins Historia Moneta

    To quote a band I am not terribly fond of...same as it ever was.
     
  12. desertgem

    desertgem Senior Errer Collecktor Supporter

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  13. -jeffB

    -jeffB Greshams LEO Supporter

    I'm led to believe that "sticking odd things in odd places" has been going on a lot longer than that.
     
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  14. Cachecoins

    Cachecoins Historia Moneta

    Sticking things in our holes, or our things in other holes....certainly something we began doing long ago. Nothing is new. I remember long ago I read about the guy who stuck it in the tailpipe of a car...or the guy who stopped to stick it into road kill...along the way I realized we have always been this way and probably always will be.
     
  15. scottishmoney

    scottishmoney Buh bye

    Oh the humanity! Kind of reminds me of the woman in Israel that was using gasoline to clean the toilet and her husband went to do his business while smoking...
     
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  16. Limes

    Limes Well-Known Member

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  17. DonnaML

    DonnaML Well-Known Member

    It was a million to one shot, doc!

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    Cosmo Kramer : Have you ever met a proctologist? Well, they usually have a very good sense of humor. You meet a proctologist at a party, don't walk away. Plant yourself there, because you will hear the funniest stories you've ever heard. See, no one wants to admit to them that they stuck something up there. Never! It's always an accident. Every proctologist story ends in the same way: "It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one!"
     
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  18. panzerman

    panzerman Well-Known Member

    The RR expanded their territories thru aggression/ then enslaved the surviving populations. Carthage on the otherhand, where a trading maritime nation that had a democratic form of govt. and would rather do commerce then war. Eventually the RR would try to dominate the region, Carthage was not going to roll over and let them, thus we had the Punic Wars. Would be nice to see a epic modern version of the Battle of Cannae.
     
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  19. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

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  20. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    Agreed. Traders.
     
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  21. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

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