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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2827570, member: 56859&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">Pronoia</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>From <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphePronoia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphePronoia.html" rel="nofollow">theoi.com</a>:&nbsp; In Greek mythology Hesione-Pronoea was the Oceanid-nymph wife of the Titan Prometheus. She was a minor goddess of foresight.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Byzantine era, &quot;pronoia&quot; was a system of granting dedicated streams of state income to individuals and institutions.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting modern neologism is uses this word as the opposite of paranoia:&nbsp; sensing that a conspiracy exists to <i>help</i> the&nbsp; person.&nbsp; [This is not a feeling I&#039;ve ever personally experienced <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an ugly example, an Alexandrian tet.&nbsp; It appears that someone tried to gild it in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_65afd5c4a910487998d87b8bf81dbac4.jpg_srb_p_1000_521_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb&amp;hash=7cd9e254799a813cf94d1cdf5084a314" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Hadrian</b></p><p>year 22, CE 137/8</p><p>billion tetradrachm, 23 mm, 12.3 gm</p><p>Obv: AVTKAICTPAAΔPIANOCCEB; laureate head right</p><p>Rev: ΠPONOIA; Pronoia standing left, holding phoenix and sceptre; KB left</p><p>Ref: Emmett 881.22[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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