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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4499925, member: 10461&quot;]You could end up writing another book if you go far enough down the research rabbit hole! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I often think of coins in more aesthetic terms- as little pieces of public art- but have less often considered how they functioned as actual <i>money</i> in their own time. </p><p><br /></p><p>I mean sure, one does give it <i>some</i> thought, but I always spend more of that in imagining what the people were wearing and doing and the environment they lived in than how much buying power their money had.&nbsp; But when you stop to think about it, it does get pretty interesting.&nbsp; I do like to think of all the stuff they must have bought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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