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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8274407, member: 26430"]Another risk... After one's had a taste, it can be really difficult not to eat a little bit of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've usually been able to limit myself to only eating small fragments (25% or less)...</p><p>[ATTACH]1460751[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1460752[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For this one, I had a little bit more:</p><p>[ATTACH]1460753[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Although I have not read the comedies (i.e., <i>The Birds </i>and <i>The Wasps</i>), it's my understanding that the playwright Aristophanes discusses how the Athenians, being ever wise and restrained, made their coins last longer by sucking on them like lozenges instead of taking big bites.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8274407, member: 26430"]Another risk... After one's had a taste, it can be really difficult not to eat a little bit of the coin. I've usually been able to limit myself to only eating small fragments (25% or less)... [ATTACH]1460751[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1460752[/ATTACH] For this one, I had a little bit more: [ATTACH]1460753[/ATTACH] Although I have not read the comedies (i.e., [I]The Birds [/I]and [I]The Wasps[/I]), it's my understanding that the playwright Aristophanes discusses how the Athenians, being ever wise and restrained, made their coins last longer by sucking on them like lozenges instead of taking big bites.[/QUOTE]
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