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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 24064, member: 57463&quot;]Napoleon is an interesting person in an interesting time.&nbsp; I am probably more inline with other sentiments.&nbsp; The story that Beethoven ripped up the first page of <i>Heroica</i> and renamed the Third Symphony <i>Eroica</i> when Napoleon declared himself Emperor is probably not true, but I like it anyway. (According to my father, his mother&#039;s side of the family came to Sicily from Corsica.&nbsp; Having fought alongside Napleon, they took the name &quot;Chevalier&quot; which they changed to &quot;Cavilieri.&quot;&nbsp; At least, that&#039;s his story and he stuck to it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> )</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though I am no longer an active collector and actually unburdened myself of my accumulations, I still have a few of this and that and among them, I find that more than a few are really, really old.&nbsp; My interest was primarily in ancient Greek coins from the towns associated with philosophers, so that is not so surprising.&nbsp; For instance, this one is from Syracuse.&nbsp; Even though it was struck about 460 BC, it might have circulated in the time of Plato or Archimedes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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