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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3584699, member: 81887&quot;]Howdy, Deacon Ray, glad to see you back here!&nbsp; I hope your new job will leave you with enough spare tome to post new coins here.&nbsp; Also, as someone who is allergic to being preached at, I can add that your post did not seem at all preachy or in violation of the board policies on religious/political talk.&nbsp; You were simply showing us your promotion and new responsibilities, which included pictures of you wearing your vestments in a church.&nbsp; Similarly, if you were in the military, it would be fine to post a picture of yourself wearing your uniform and standing next to a tank, I would not interpret this as meaning that you were trying to convince us to support particular military actions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Re: BC/AD vs. BCE/CE, I usually use BC/AD just out of habit, but I certainly don&#039;t object to BCE/CE.&nbsp; When it comes to transliterating Chinese, however, I will only use pinyin and refuse to have any truck with that Wade-Giles nonsense <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>And just to add numismatic content, here are a couple of Judaean coins from my collection, which represent both of the major coin types issued by Pontius Pilate:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956789[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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