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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Margolis, post: 3040827, member: 88401&quot;]You put a lot of effort and info into this for sure. I will ask if you weighed in the future impact politically and historically of the peoples represented on the list? Since the list is not as you say based on numismatic history in a major way. You said it is based on &quot;The list aims to be <i>historically comprehensive</i>, not numismatically comprehensive; and it focuses on political and military history, not cultural or social.&quot; I would think that separating political/military from socio-cultural and religious history is quite difficult. Since you did mention in the intro that you have only one Judaean type and that is an area of interest of mine we could focus on that as an example. With the vast future historical impact of the Judaean people on all of future Roman history and the rest of global world history why would you not have a type of say the revolt coins like the Masada prutahs? That was military and political history with enormous consequences for many people. The whole idea of freedom and sovereignty issues comes into play.In contrast you included six Parthians and five Sassanian coin types. What kind of future impact did these I believe now extinct nations have on future history? Or maybe again that does not figure into your equation? I have very little historical knowledge on many of the peoples represented so I am including this example just to maybe help hone the basic principle and criteria of the list. You have asked for criticism so as to help improve the study. Doug mentioned our congress in his response. So yes we have a senate and our republican government is from ancient Rome. We have democratic values from Greece and military and political wisdom from China and many other nations. So it does appear that the future impact of many of these peoples has a big value on the list just by how they have influenced the history of the west and our modern world. Just some things to think about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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