Should be interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...v-series-caesars-british-writer-michael-hirst
Hey, that looks interesting! That's going to be a great "virtual watercooler" show for the ancient enthusiasts here. I hope some coins sneak into the scenes... and I hope they get them right. Edited: Here's a coin. Now the thread is "legal" Julius Caesar. 49-48 BCE AR denarius Struck by the military mint traveling with Caesar. Obv: elephant standing right, trampling on serpent; CAESAR in exergue Rev: simpulum, sprinkler, axe, and priest's hat. Ref: Crawford 443/1; Sydenham 1006
This is the ancient section of Coin Talk and people here (hear?) are expected to know something about history including the subject of this series which has a great deal more pertinence to this section than the attempted censorship posts of modern collectors who have no interest in ancient coins or history.
I'll keep an eye out for it, for sure. Would prefer to watch something based on the later empire, though. A series about Justinian's life and wars would be pretty interesting as well. In any case, any new show or movie about ancient/medieval settings usually will pique my interest, since they seem to rarely come by. Which is why I'm glad History added another good (IMO) historically-based series recently.
That'll be cool. That was one of the things that ticked me off on HBO's Rome. The coins used looked more like Gallerius rather the Roman republic.
What would you then say if a thread about, say, Art Nouveau or the Civil War in the US was started in, say, Coin Chat? Both topics may very well be relevant for collectors of modern coins. But I suppose most people in that forum would not complain, or even refer to censorship, if we moved such a thread to an appropriate section such as General Discussion. Christian
I'm not Doug but I'd say it should probably be handled based on the reactions of people in those forums. The ancients section regularly has posts on ancient history and archaeology that are only tangentially related to coins and the regular posters here seem to be OK with it and many comment on those threads. If regular posters here were offended by such posts it would be a different story but generally the only ones who complain are people like the guy above who I can't recall having ever seen post here before.
I agree with @TIF , here is some History to help make this thread "legit", and not invaded by errant modern coin collectors that have no real clue of Histories... Here is the Century of Roman History that I enjoy: RR Anon AR Didrachm 280-275 BCE Mars-Horse FIRST SILVER Coin Minted by the Romans RR Anon AR Didrachm 275-270 BCE ROMANO Apollo-Galloping Horse Sear 23 RR Anon 265-242 BCE Didrachm Roma-Victory Crawford 22-1 Sear 25 RR Anon 234-231 BCE AR Didrachm Apollo-Horse prancing Crawford 26-1 Sear 28 RR Anon Didrachm Quadrigatus Janus 225-215 BCE Craw 28-3 Sear 31
I'm glad to see more historically based series being produced. Better than some of the mindless junk they pass off as entertainment these days.
Pretty much everybody has an opinion when to comes to what threads belong in what section of the forum. But for the sake of clarity on the matter, there are no hard and fast rules regarding it. Yes sometimes threads are moved, other times they are not. What I am saying is that in most cases there is a great deal of latitude given. But that latitude doesn't have anything to do with what the members who regularly post in a given section happen to think about it, nor does it have anything to do with what any of the forum members think about it. In other words the forum members don't get to make the decisions, nor do the forum members have any say in it at all. The only ones who can decide if latitude is given or not given regarding moving or not moving a thread are the CT staff. And that decision is not based on member requests, nor is it based on member complaints - it is based solely on the staff member's judgement of the individual situation at hand. And their judgement is based on how they have been trained and or instructed on how to deal with such situations.
Sounds pretty good. By the way the original I, Claudius series is available in its entirety on the streaming service Acorn. I've watched all of the episodes recently.
