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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7769595, member: 19463&quot;]I have never been a fan of the concept of judging people of history using modern norms of proper behavior.&nbsp; For that matter,&nbsp; I see no reason to judge people today on all forms of behavior in order to appreciate what they do well.&nbsp; That allows me to appreciate the music of drug addicted hotel trashers and study the personalities who killed more immediate family relatives than is considered appropriate today.&nbsp; I am, therefore, able to forgive Septimius Severus for not killing baby Caracalla in keeping with his rights as a Roman father.&nbsp; Kassander may not be the kind of guy you want your daughter to bring home but he and his circle of friends sure do make interesting reading.&nbsp; He was what he was and it is not necessary for us to render judgment.&nbsp; I would, however, had preferred that he issued a better array of properly labeled coins.&nbsp; We honor Brutus for issuing a coin commemorating what we call &#039;murder&#039; and he called &#039;saving Rome&#039;.&nbsp; I also wish Caracalla had issued a coin with legend, &quot;Yes, I killed him, what are you going to do about it?&quot;&nbsp; Kassander was not bad by the standards of his peer group.&nbsp; Some people study history and wish they were there.&nbsp; I am thankful that I am not. </p><p><br /></p><p>A question for our visitors from the Modern pages of Coin Talk:&nbsp; Do you ever look at your coins as they fit with history?&nbsp; For example, can you tell me what of note happened in the US Senate the same year they authorized the first small cents or do such questions mean nothing to collectors?&nbsp; I could be a collector of modern coins if they were better linked to current events.&nbsp; Do we judge our modern politicians by the standards we expect of the ancients? Bully Brooks was reelected.&nbsp; Was he long enough ago that we can accept his actions? </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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