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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 584, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Reverse Osmosis</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I think about it the other way...&nbsp; Being a visitor to ancient times and spending Mercury dimes, Walkers, Large Cents, Half Eagles, ...&nbsp; Our 19th and 20th century Type coins are very classical.&nbsp; The Latin mottoes and legends would be intelligible: even &quot;America&quot; is Latinized.&nbsp; The numerals would be odd, but as long as the coins were copper, silver, and gold, they would not care.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at a Ptolemy Tetradrachm and a Washington Quarter, you realize that the US Mint&#039;s designers only updated some very stable presentations.&nbsp; Double the thickness of the quarter,&nbsp; making it 12 grams, and it is the same coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I often see our basemetal sandwich quarters as &quot;Folles of the Tetrarchy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You could not take an Isabella Quarter to Spain 1492.&nbsp; They were a little narrow-minded at that moment.&nbsp; But you could take a roll of very Greek-looking $20 Saints to Alexander the Great to introduce yourself to him as an &quot;ambassador&quot; from &quot;America&quot; beyond the Pillars of Herakles.</p><p><br /></p><p>--------------------</p><p>There are some &quot;Alternate Universe&quot; stories about numismatics.&nbsp; The most famous is &quot;The Woodrow Wilson Dime.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, there is an alternate universe story about a modern guy who meets Alexander and totally blows it.&nbsp; He comes back to a time when there was no American revolution and various areas of Pennsylvania are little fiefdoms of Leatherstocking warriors in the &quot;20th&quot; century.</p><p><br /></p><p>So be careful what you wish for: you might get it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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