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<p>[QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 7654630, member: 104741"]I have no coins a Maximinus T. As a matter of fact I knew very little about the man until earlier this morning, when I found myself immersed in part one of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, more precisely the chapter on Thrax.</p><p>Ugly man, as it turns out, even by Roman standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, Gibbon writes (also, the point of my post):</p><p> </p><p>'Every city of the empire was possessed of an independent revenue, destined to purchase corn for the multitude, and to supply the expences of the games and the entertainments. By a single act of authority, the whole mass of wealth was at once confiscated for the use of the Imperial treasury. The temples were stripped of their most valuable offerings of gold and silver, and the statues of gods, heroes, and emperors were melted down and coined into money'. (chapter VII,<i> The oppression of the provinces)<b>.</b></i></p><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p>How fascinating it would be to own a coin struck from one of those statues! (although you obviously couldn't possibly hope to prove that any one coin came from that event). But the idea alone, that the coin you hold <i>may </i>have that origin, is enough to want to buy one... Despicable though the man was, it certainly adds to the drama of his coinage![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 7654630, member: 104741"]I have no coins a Maximinus T. As a matter of fact I knew very little about the man until earlier this morning, when I found myself immersed in part one of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, more precisely the chapter on Thrax. Ugly man, as it turns out, even by Roman standards. Interestingly, Gibbon writes (also, the point of my post): 'Every city of the empire was possessed of an independent revenue, destined to purchase corn for the multitude, and to supply the expences of the games and the entertainments. By a single act of authority, the whole mass of wealth was at once confiscated for the use of the Imperial treasury. The temples were stripped of their most valuable offerings of gold and silver, and the statues of gods, heroes, and emperors were melted down and coined into money'. (chapter VII,[I] The oppression of the provinces)[B]. [/B][/I] How fascinating it would be to own a coin struck from one of those statues! (although you obviously couldn't possibly hope to prove that any one coin came from that event). But the idea alone, that the coin you hold [I]may [/I]have that origin, is enough to want to buy one... Despicable though the man was, it certainly adds to the drama of his coinage![/QUOTE]
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