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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7291150, member: 10461"]Yes, it’s true. They were the mass-market billboards of the day. A billboard that could fit in one’s pocket, that would be seen by dozens if not hundreds of people over time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Romans knew this full well, which is how coins became their medium for imperial propaganda. And it is largely thanks to those coins that we now know so much about their history today, one and a half to two millennia later. History which would have otherwise been lost to time. </p><p><br /></p><p>Paradoxically, it is precisely <i>because</i> some coins were lost to time, or secreted in buried hoards, that they have come down to us through the centuries and told their stories.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7291150, member: 10461"]Yes, it’s true. They were the mass-market billboards of the day. A billboard that could fit in one’s pocket, that would be seen by dozens if not hundreds of people over time. The Romans knew this full well, which is how coins became their medium for imperial propaganda. And it is largely thanks to those coins that we now know so much about their history today, one and a half to two millennia later. History which would have otherwise been lost to time. Paradoxically, it is precisely [I]because[/I] some coins were lost to time, or secreted in buried hoards, that they have come down to us through the centuries and told their stories.[/QUOTE]
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