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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4242745, member: 72790&quot;][ATTACH=full]1083354[/ATTACH] I know most of us have read accounts from Ancient Times where plagues and epidemics have swept through city-states, kingdoms and empires and are frequently cited as one of the causes of the decline and fall of such states. Seeing the economic disruption and social dislocation going on right now I can see why some historians of the Ancient World include plagues and pandemics as part of the reason for these declines and falls, especially if coupled with other disasters like crop failures, droughts and outbreaks of war. Fortunately the barbarians are not at the gates for us and locusts are not sweeping through the grain fields but it becomes clearer how the nexus of several events like these could, and probably did, cause irreversible damage to earlier civilizations. By the way, seeing what is happening to virtual currencies, our hobby of collecting coins, especially silver and gold, looks like a wise choice so, buy a few more. Also to illustrate the wisdom of numismatists in collecting at what they do, look at the illustration of the three coins shown here. First is a close to pure silver lifetime coin of Alexander the Great (close to 17 grams of almost pure silver). The second is a gold solidus of Valentinian, 4.45 grams of almost pure gold. Number three is typical virtual coin of … .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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