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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3974558, member: 98035&quot;]Great writeup!</p><p><br /></p><p>One interesting thing I have never heard discussed is how to treat the dates prior to the great adjustment of 46 BC. We have specific dates for many events... are those dates inaccurate by as much as several months? While I understand the concept and methodology for converting old calendars to the current BC/AD model, the number of factors to consider is staggering - such as 46 BC being so long that it required an extra two months to catch back up, and various other adjustments prior to that, which may or may not be accounted for in the ancient sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose that is why after the BC/AD chronology was calculated in the middle ages, a discrepancy of about 4-7 years was found, namely that Herod the Great died years before originally calculated, yet the Bible explicitly states that he was alive when Jesus was a toddler.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, my only Janus coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046023[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And a Cordius Rufus denarius from that year</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046024[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Happy new year everyone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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