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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 548343, member: 6370&quot;]I have seen SO MANY history channel shows that did not get it right...Its shocking. Saw a documentary on Constantine and it was just full of errors, assumptions and unsubstantated rumor passed off as fact...It was almost worthless as a tool for learning. So I wouldnt put much faith in any history channel production...though at the time of Thermopylae they did not mint coinage and, as you say, that probably what they meant.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sparta was called Lakedaimon, Lakedaimon not only used coins (not in its earliest years) they also minted them as well. :</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/gemini/005/image00115.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/cng/068/enlarged/680337.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Coins above were minted long after Thermopylae[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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