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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4949150, member: 10461&quot;]Roman <i>coins</i> taught me everything I know about that whole period in history.&nbsp; The only thing I can remember learning about it otherwise from school was when we had to act out Shakespeare’s <i>Julius Caesar </i>in my high school English Literature class.</p><p><br /></p><p>We just read the parts at our desks- there was no stage or props.&nbsp; I was Cassius.&nbsp; Ask me to recite a line.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, on second thought, <i>don’t</i>.&nbsp; After 36 years, I’ve forgotten them all.&nbsp; I <i>was</i> gonna say, “<i>Is this a dagger I see before me...”, </i>but Google tells me that one’s from <i>Macbeth.</i>&nbsp; Oops.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I can rattle off the names of all the emperors from the first and part of the second century, in order, without peeking at a book.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/">Guess why</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- I can also say the same about the rest of World History, Geography, and the teeny-tiny smattering of Latin I know, too.</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Coins</i> taught me all that, and they were great little teachers, too, because I&#039;ve had <strike>years</strike> - <i>decades</i> of fun with them all along the way, and forgot I was actually <i>learning</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>They have grabbed my attention and imagination far better than anything that was doled out to me in the musty, boring classrooms of my youth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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