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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7770756, member: 19463&quot;]I agree, that is a fine coin.&nbsp; I will continue to believe that we can not measure ancient people using modern standards.&nbsp; Ptolemy I may have been the best of his peer group.&nbsp; That may not have been a great honor by current standards.&nbsp; I tend to agree that Ptolemy I seems like a &#039;not bad&#039; ruler. </p><p><br /></p><p>It reminds me of a song lyric I appreciate:</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">I didn&#039;t even make the papers</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">&#039;Cause I only killed one man</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">[MEDIA=youtube]Xad0Qyu__cE[/MEDIA]</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">It was really hard to make the bad ruler list back then.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Ptolemy is reported to have written a personal account of the conquests of Alexander but it is now lost.&nbsp; I can not help wondering how he would be remembered by history if it were found.&nbsp; Similarly, would we have a different perspective on Caesar if his writings did not exist. I do not know whose version of the history of the period has most colored our modern perception of the people.&nbsp; Even more, I do not know what is the truth. </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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