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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2234867, member: 72818&quot;]The denarius I posted is actually an affordable, attractive and interesting example of a coin associated with Pompey the Great. It was minted in 49 BC----the year Caesar crossed the Rubicon and set in motion events that would forever change Western History---it was struck by a &#039;military mint&#039; traveling with Pompey, presumably to finance the civil war and the subsequent unsuccessful defense of the Italian peninsula (and Rome itself).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since they were meant to circulate, one can easily imagine the countless Pompeiians that once possessed it paying merchants and others for their daily needs and desires---let alone the probability it ended up in the hands of the victorious Caesarians and then continued to circulate throughout the centuries....until it ended up. 2,000 years later, in the unlikely hands of a descendant of Irish/German immigrants residing in a continent none of them even suspected existed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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