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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2282237, member: 19463&quot;]I really like that video but take exception with one point.&nbsp; True, moneyer was a job usually held by a young man on his way up the Cursus Honorum.&nbsp; The video says that they did not make types to show their own accomplishments because they did not have any but I believe doing so would have been seen as a horrid breech of proper behavior.&nbsp; Honoring an ancestor, as the video pointed out, was extremely proper.&nbsp; Look how Caesar was received by Brutus and the conservative Republicans and he was a major league hero by the time he was shown on coins.&nbsp; A 20 something who had a big head and blew his own horn would not have been taken seriously except, perhaps, by the guys with knives who might consider him dangerous.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The exception here is our much shown coin with King Aretas and his camel who had surrendered to the moneyer.&nbsp; I doubt this would have been so well received had he put his own image in front of the camel receiving the tribute of Aretas.&nbsp; I wonder what the gossips on the street had to say about it as it is. </p><p><br /></p><p>Watch the video.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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