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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3335198, member: 57463&quot;]Whence the name of BARCELONA in Spain, a former Carthaginian colony whose Punic roots grew deep and flowered with the arrivals later of Jews (&quot;Sephardics&quot; today) and then the Muslims. The same light sheds some understanding on why the so-called &quot;French&quot; of &quot;Marseille&quot; enjoy <b>bouillabaisse</b>, which is just mixed fish stew, a Greek dish, because the town was called &quot;Massalia&quot; when it was first colonized in 600 BCE by Greeks from the town of Phocaea in what is today called &quot;Turkey.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>To me that all explains why you are a numismatist and not a collector. Collectors know very little about history. But with ancients, if you do not know the history, you have nothing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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