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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 4928257, member: 110226&quot;]Athens, Tetradrachm, c. 465-455 BC</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><img src="https://www.romanumismatics.com/catalogue_images/auction/xlarge/9004.157.4_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>“Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilized world, a strange new power was at work.&nbsp; Something had awakened in the minds and spirits of the men there which was so to influence the world that the slow passage of long time, of century upon century and the shattering changes they brought, would be powerless to wear away any deep impress.&nbsp; Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and spirit that our mind and spirit to-day are different.&nbsp; We think and feel differently because of what a little Greek town did during a century or two, twenty-four hundred years ago.”</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Edith Hamilton, from The Greek Way</p><p><br /></p><p>As collectors of ancient coins, we own objects produced millennia ago, produced by people who were very much like us.&nbsp; They had their aspirations, needs, vices and virtues, much as ours today.&nbsp; The coins that we own speak to us at many levels, as markers of history, works of art and expressions of the human spirit and heart.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the most remarkable achievements of the ancient world was the establishment of the principle of democracy.&nbsp; Athens was the first city-state to start selecting citizens to serve terms to manage the levers of state.&nbsp; As with many human endeavors, the democracy practiced by Athens was limited, excluding large swaths of her population as citizens, including women, slaves and the foreign born.&nbsp; Still, the concept of citizens serving to pass laws was remarkable, during an age dominated by kings, oligarchs and tyrants wielding absolute power over their people.</p><p><br /></p><p>The very word democracy has, as its root, the Greek word for people, demos.&nbsp; It is the people who govern, in the interest of the country at large.</p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse, Tetradrachm, Second Democracy, 466-406 BC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1186000[/ATTACH]</p><p>So, in the spirit of the democratic spirit that we inherited from Athens and Republican Rome, let&#039;s see ancients that symbolize democracy or show people in the act of voting!</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh yes, and don&#039;t forget to vote in the November 3rd election.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/photos/230/057/ad138da5-b1e6-4889-96d2-80e52cf92a4f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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